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NEW TRANSLATION OF THE
BIBLE.

Church Extension.—Mr. Hume's amendment to Sir R.
Inglis's motion, that an humble Address be presented to her
Majesty, praying that, before recommending this House to
grant any further sums of public money towards Church
.Ex-
tension, her Majesty would be graciously pleased to take into
consideration the rich and valuable endowments which are al-
ready possessed by the Established Church of England and
Wales, as well as the large sums of public money which have
been granted for Church Extension since the year 1809.
" That her Majesty will be graciously pleased to consider
that, in the opinion of a large portion of the people in England,
the present revenues of the Church, if wisely administered, are
amply sufficient to provide religious worship and instruction
for that portion of her Majesty's subjects belonging to the
Established Church of this kingdom."—The Son, No. 14,833,
Friday, May 22, 1840.
"We observe in a pamphlet, Anti-Deist,' published by
Mr. Bellamy, that Exodus, c. iii., v. 22, is a gross mistransla-
tion. He notices a
number of other errors in the translation
of the Bible now in use, equally hostile to the true meaning of
the writers. It is not a little curious, that many of these mis-
translated passages, which give meanings in dii ect opposition to
the real ones, have been as stoutly defended by eminent theo-
logians as any in the whole book, and long commentaries have
been written upon them, expressly to show their beauty and
propriety."—The Examiner, Dec. 24, 1821.
To CORRESPONDENTS.—" The Bible.—We have been so
earnestly exhorted to persevere in opening our Paper to the dis-
cussion of the merits of the New Translation, as a question of
the, utmost importance to the interests of mankind, that we feel
it to be our duty to comply. Our Correspondents, therefore,
shall be attended to in turn, ns we have reason to believe that
the Heads of the Church have already directed their attention
to the controversy."—The Sun, London, Saturday, Dec. 5,
1818.
" Surely the elevated patronage which this New Translation
has deservedly obtained, should operate as a general example
and incitement. Shall the Bible, with its many acknowledged
errors, descend to posterity polluted with all those errors; er
shall it be transmitted to the latest generations of mankind,
with as much of its original purity as it is possible for human
sagacity, knowledge, and diligence to elucidate and confirm."—.
The Sun, Monday, November 23d, 1818. The Sun, Septem-
ber 30th, October 7th, and 28th, 1837.
" Published in 1818 and 1819. Parts 1 and 2, price 245.
each, dedicated by permission to his Royal Highness the Prince
of Wales, as Regent.
" The New Translation of the Holy Bible, containing the
three books of the Pentateuch, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus,
and reconciling the numerous discrepancies in Jerome's and the
European versions."
Part 3d in 1821, containing from Numbers to Deuteronomy.
By John Bellamy.

SPECIMEN OF EMENDATION.
Authorised Version, Deuteronomy, chap. 14, v. 22 :—" Thou
shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed."
" It is a well-known maxim of English law, suggested by
common sense, and recognised by every principle of justice, 10
infer, that the long and uninterrupted enjoyment of a civil
right must have originated in a regular grant from the original
owner, although no express evidence can be produced of ex-
istence of such conveyance." On Tithes.—Quarterly Review,
No. 53.
New Translation:—" A tenth thou shalt tenth, of all the
increase of thy seed." Note—Onkelos, the most eminent of
all the learned Rabbis, who lived before the dispersion of the
Hebrews, and consequently made the translation of the Sacred
Volume into Chaldee at the period when the Hebrew was a
national language, thus translates the clause—Gnasaara
tignsarah, " a tenth thou shalt tenth," which is the same as the
Hebrew. The Septuagint 6Exccl-ov oonse)a-;:a7-C.VG-il (both
Alexandrine and Vatican) " a tenth thou shalt tenth." The
learned Selden, Le Clerc, and other great authorities on
tithes, say—" It is not likely that the Levites should have had
a tenth of the whole produce of the land, because the number
of the tribe of Levi, compared with the numbers of the other
tribes, was so trifling. Neither could it be of all the produce
of the land, but of the increase of the seed ; as it is truly said
in the common version : for the increase must necessarily have
been that part of the produce after the seed employed to give
the increase, had been returned to the grower out of the gross
produce; otherwise it could not have been said it was the "in-
crease of the seed."
" When the harvest had been ended, and all gathered, then
the husbandman laid aside his great themma, otherwise called
the first fruits of his threshing floore, of which it bath beene
spoken in chapter on first fruits; which, though it were one
of ten, in respect of that portion which the Levites received,
yet it was but one of a hundred in respect oS the husbandman's
stocke, who payed the Levites; the Levites payed a tenth por-
tion unto the Priests; this they termed Magnasher min-ham-
magnasher, the tithe of the tithes, Neh. x. 38. The Pharisees
would pay a tenth, Mat. xxiii. 23 ; and hence it is that they
boasted, They gave tithes of all that they possessed, Luke
xviii. 12."—Civil and Ecclesiastical Rites, used by the ancient
Hebrews. Dedicated to the Earl of Pembroke, Chancellor of
the University of Oxford. By Thomas Godwyn, B.D. 1634.
" The Council of Calcuith, or Calchite, held in 785. or, ac-
cording to others, in 787, on account of erecting Lichfield into
an Archbishopric, ratified the Canons of a Synod that had been
con"ened just before in Northumberland. Gregory and
Theophilact, who presided as the Pope's Legates, acknow-
ledged, in their letter to the Pope, that they were the first that
had been sent into England that character. The follow-
ing are some of the Canons of the Synod of Northumberland,
ratified by the Council of Calcuith :-Bth. The ancient
privileges of the Church are carefully to be preserved. The
17th urges the payment of Tithes from the authority of the
Law of Moses."
" Ethehvulph's reign furnishes us with a subject, which,
though mentioned elsewhere, it will not b amiss to repeat a
little more largely of in this place; I mean the grant of Tithes.
The Charter runs thus :
" I, Ethclwulph, by the grace of God, &c., have, for the
health of my soul, and good of my people, taken the prudent
resolution of granting the tenth part of all the lands throughout
my whole kingdom to the Church and Ministers of Religion,
&c. &c.—Dated the Palace at Wilton, in the year 854, Indic-
tion the second, at the Feast of Easter."
The terms, date, and subscription of the Charter, have in-
duced several learned men to believe it spurious. But without
entering into the controversy, I shall content myself with ob-
serving, that long before this Charter the Clergy of England
claimed a right to the Tithes, if they were not already in actual
possession of them. This is evident from the 17th Canon of
the Council of Calcuith, held in 785, where we find they urged
the payment of Tithes from the Law of Moses. If this Chaa-
ter, therefore, is not to be considered a forgery, it seem at least
to be of very doubtful authority. Add to this, that by the
tenth part of the lands must necessarily be meant the tenth
part of the profits ; which must be owned to be a very forced
interpretation, especially in a primordial Act such as this.
Page 111, Rapin's History of England.
" The plan which I have to unfold may at first appear start-
ling, . . . . to introduce within the Christian Church.
It may appear to encroach by those who have strenuously ad-
vocated the sacredness of the clergy's income, and entered
their decided protest against any reform being necessary, as re-
lating to ecclesiastical affairs."—Espilon Theta.
"The King, Henry the Fourth, representing to the Parlia-
ment his great want of an extraordinary aid, the Commons
went in abody and addressed him, That without burdening
his people he might supply his occasions by seizing the revenue
of the clergy.' The Archbishop of Canterbury resisted—the
Commons brought in a Bill to seize the clergy's revenues—
the solicitations of the Archbishop were so prevalent with the
Lords, that they threw out the Bill, so the Commons were
forced to find other means to supply the King's occasions; the
clergy granted a tenth and a-half. —Page 495.
" The Commons, willing to comply with the King's
( Henry V.) demand of a subsidy, presented an address, praying
him to seize the clergy's revenues. The clergy perceiving
their ruin inevitable, came to the resolution to resign a part of
their riches to the King in order to save the rest."—Page 509,
Rapin's History of England. (I.)—See the Sun, Nos. 14,628,
14,662.

No mention, Bishop Barlow observes, is made of tithes
in the grand codes of canons, ending in the year of our Lord
457, (which, next to the Bible, he considers as the most au-
thentic book in the world). During all that period, there-
fore, both the clergy and the Church appear to have been sup..
ported by the free gifts and other oblations of the pious. "_See
Selden on Tithes, and Barb. Rem. 169.
Tithes, from the Saxon word Teoda, which signifies the
tenth part of a thing, may be defined to be the tenth part of
the increase yearly, arising and renewing from the profits of
land, the stock upon lands, and the personal industry of the in-
habitants."-2 Black. Corn. 21.
From the above readings the following scale is deducible :
Allowing agricultural produce to realise thirty per cent., which
is absolute—tithe impost to be included—and increase being
considered synonymous with produce—a tenth is 131. per cent.
Here we must observe we think the imposition of three half-
pence in every shilling quartern loaf a severe infliction for our
spiritual edification. Albeit it would almost pass without a
murmur, but that our hallowed Faith enjoins us " To feed the

There is the recorded vote of the House of
per cent. property or income tax ! being oppressive.
Under the operation of the property tax an esquire whose
principal of 10,0001. netted him 500/. per annum, paid to the
wo p
ea
tni t
is oppositionag ain
against
State 501., under the operation of the tithe composition, an
Commons to 10
outlay of 5001. subjects the cultivator to the saraeso/. ; this, in-
deed, is " th' oppressors wrongs."
" The alarm excited by announcing a proposed continuance
of the income tax was now beginning to operate; and the city
mof e nLto, nod: 111,' commencedeh .8, ythPeresetaxn,
Lord Mayor, Alderman, and Common Council, the other from
the Lord Mayor and Liverymen, both expressed in strong lan-
guage, respecting the odious and inquisitorial nature of the
tinongetofrPomarltiha-e
tax. The Ministers and their adherents increased their efforts
to make it appear that the opposition to the tax was fastened
by popular clamour and party mancouvres. This attempt re-
ceived a final defeat by a petition, presented on March 18, by
Sir William Curtis, from the merchants, bankers, and traders
of the city of London. The number of signatures was 22,000.
March the 18th the Chancellor of the Exchequer proposed the
continuance of the obnoxious tax several other speakers fol-
lowed on each side. At length every voice was drowned in the
cry of question, and the House divided, when the numbers were,
for the continuance of the tax; 201, against it 238, majority 37.
When the result was announced, a long and loud cheering arose
in the House, which was re-echoed by the crowd that filled the
lobby and avenues, and the event was felt throughout the na-
tion as a relief from an oppressive bartleA4-Annual Register
for 1816.
" It has been presumptuous," so we read in the pithy
Examiner, No. 780, " to dabble in chemistry ; to look through
a telescope ; to inoculate for the small-pox ; to abate the viru-
lence of a pestilential disorder by the salutary assistance of a
cow; lastly, and we trust the argument will be deemed con-
clusive--to read the Bible. And in what has all this pre-
sumption generally consisted? In the anxiety of some men to
know more than it was convenient for other men they should
know. The moment the daring inquirer discovered a truth—
a truth !—which threatened to militate against a profitable
system of error, then the awful secrets' were invaded—the
' ark of the sanctuary' disturbed. Any Barabbas of the day
was milk-white compared with the daring offender : in a word,
away with him." Could great men thunder,' says Shaks-
peare, ' there would he nothing but thunder.' Could they
make a thirst for knowledge sinful and presumptuous, there
would be a most inconvenient multiplicity of awful secrets.' "
Having now emerged from the honourable estimation in the
community, we take leave to mention a few whose great names
gave permanency to the system.
" Protest." "In our opinion, therefore, the land is sub-
jected to a direct taxation, amounting on the rent, tithe, and
poor-rate, to 33 per cent !"
On the amendment of the Duke of Wellington upon the Corn
Bill. Signed Duke of Newcastle, Earls Ilosslyn and Lauder-
dale.—Journal of the House of Lords.—The Times, June 5,
1827.
" It would shake the foundation of all property in the king-
dom."—Mr. Peel.—The News, Sunday, May, 23, 1825.
" Because he had an apprehension and timidity." Mr.
O'Connell, Herald, Dec. 2, 1836.
It is now more than thirty years since the eminent linguist
Bellamy divulged his biblical emendations, through a periodical
of the highest literary character in the country, the "Classical
Journal ;" it is twenty- two years since we became adherents to
his promulgations, and with an intent watchfulness, The Sun,
the Examiner, and the Chester Chronicle, are the only Papers
amongst the range, who have promoted the matter held to be
" of the utmost importance to the interest of mankind," and " a
life beyond life."

Thii enables us to repel the imputation to the " Continental
Despots," we rather say Sovereigns of Europe, or "the cruel
and faithless bigot," and it may go to assuage the acerbity of
vituperations against them, when one whose purport was and is
" of the utmost importance to the interest of mankind," and
" a life beyond life," has received such an act of unexampled
injustice from the press of England.--We hope this will not be
overlooked by the Germanic Diet on the regulations of the
Press.

4, What complaint does the bulk of the people make of the
Legislature? It is charged, in the case of the Corn-laws—
openly and distinctly charged, with inflicting hunger, disease,
and death on large portions of the community to enrich its
members. It cuts down the population, as Lord Ashburton
affirms. It curtails the supply of food, it limits the demand
for and the wages of labour. It plunders the working-classes
to put wealth in the pockets of the Aristocracy. All these
things are the very reverse of its duties. It holds power to
cherish and protect the people, and is highly criminal if it
shorten a life unnecessarily one day, or misappropriate one stick
of the property of the obedient people."—The Sun, No.
14,869, May 6, 1840.
" Thu Anti-Corn-law League yesterday closed its sittings,
and the members declared that they did not despair. Neither
do we. Our conviction that the Corn-law is a most iniquitous
impost is strengthened by what has occurred in the House of
Commons. We believe that to preserve such an impost for
any length of time is lsevond the power of the House of Com-
mons. The debate and the division of Tuesday may help the
degradation and destruction of the Parliament, but they can
neither alter the public opinion of the nature of the law, nor
maintain it in opposition to the public conviction."—The Sun,
May 28, 1840.
It being spoken by him, a who spoke as never man spoke."
Mathew, c. iv., v. 4. a But he (Jesus) answered and said, It
is written, Man shall not live by bread along.;
beingliu tbyouevr purport
to that proceedeth out of the mouth of God,"l
to carry out, and the majDetstaority of a House of Commons to abro-
yhritmling," himself,
(2)
though what we
emboldens us.
This train of thought leads us to entertain the idea that it is
a national degradation ; that those in the receipt of from 3,0001.
submit
emit the
"may mandateat fiorfst the
appea )Deity
to 30,000/. per annum should " writhe from the hands of pea-
sants their hard-earned pittance" of three-halfpence in a loaf,
and this, too, for the support of an Establishment of high in-
tellectual character. The country's dignity demands the
abolition.

Therefore we hope that her Majesty will be pleased to pro-
mote an assessment of one-half per cent. on all houses at a rent
•f 50/. per annum, 1/. per cent. on all houses at 1001. per an-
num ; two per cent. on all at 2001. per annum ; three per cent.
en all at 2001. upwards at the annual rent-charge. This paid
into her Majesty's Exchequer, the Clergy to be paid by a gra-
duated scale. _ _ _

pray her Most Gracious Majesty " hear us for our
cause," that it may disarm every depraved mind against her
" sacred person," and that n 0....
6' Peasant shall have cause to say,
Heaven shorten Victoria's ha life
Freder life one day. ick, Prince
"
(1.) *.* Dedicated to his Royal High
de Thoyras, translated into English with additional Notas, by
N. Tindal, NI. A., Vicar of Great Waltham, Essex, 1732.
of Wales,the History of England , written in French by M. Rapin
Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street.
( Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty.)
By Appointment : Budd and Catkin, Booksellers to her Ma-
jesty, Pail-mall; Longman, Roes, Orme, and Brown, St.
Paul's, London.

By Appointment : W. Wright, Bookseller to their Majesties
the Queen, the Queen Dowager, and all the Royal Family,

_
(2.) Letter to . on the Rev. W. L. Bowles'
‘4 Stric-tures on the Life and Writings of Pope,",By the Right
Hon. Loyd Byron, and that Noble Lord's works complete
in one volume.

Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. Amsterdam :
J. Muller and Co. Leyden : W. H. Hazenberg. Paris :
Arthur Bertrand. Venice: J. B. Missiaglia. Petersburgh :
Schwetschke. 1826.
A New Plan for Church Reform in a Letter addressed to
the Right Hon. Lord Viscount Melbourne, and the Right Hon.
Lord John Russell. By Epsilon Theta'
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THE LATE MR. ALDERMAN VENABLES.—
On Thursday the remains of this respected gentleman were re-
moved from his house in Arlington-street for interment in the
family vault at Cookham, in Berkshire, of which place he was
a native. There was a large attendance of the relatives and
personal friends of the family, all of whom manifested the
deepest affliction. Besides the family carriage, there attended
those of the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, Mr. Sheriff Evans,
Mr. Sheriff Wheelton, Aldermen Lucas, Sir P. Laurie, Kelly,
Lainson, I'. Wood, Humphery, Johnson, Sir G. Carroll,
Gibbs, &c. The procession, headed by the upper City Mar-
shal, left Arlington-street at nine in the morning, the carriages
of the Lord Mayor, &c., accompanying it as far as Knights-
bridge. The worthy Alderman went to London in the 21st
year of his age, and immediately commenced business as a sta-
tioner with two partners, one of whom soon died, and from the
other he shortly separated; this took place in Brower-street,
Golden-square. For a short time he continued in business
alone ; he then removed to Queenhithe, where he remained
till his death; but from which he contemplated retiring,"leav-
ing the excellent business he had there established to his second
son and his respected partners. Shortly after his residence
in
Queenhithe, in 1821, a vacancy occurring by the death of Sir
William Doraville, he was elected Alderman by the ward, by
the inhabitants of which he was highly valued, as he is now
lamented, How he filled the office of Sheriff, and of Lord
Mayor, during the year of the panic, is known and has been
duly appreciated and acknowledged by his fellow-citizens; and
after he passed the chair the continued discharge of his Magis-
terial duties was such as to secure the high commendation of
his brother Aldermanand of the corporation at large, He was
the .owner of one large paper-mill at Woburn; and he }tad aim)
latelybuilt soma powerful mills at Woking, in Surrey.

IRISH CORPORATE REFORM.—Mr. O'Connell has
addressed the following letter on this subject, and on the
Corporation of Dublin, to the Editor of the Pilot :
" Galway, Aug. 4,1840.
"My dear Barrett,---I see by the papers that the
Duke of Wellington is made to say that he was glad to
find that the question was set at rest.' Heaven help
his head ! He has said many a silly thing in his life,
from the time he called English county meetings farces'
to that in which he declared be would be mad to ac-
cept the office of Prime Minister,' and then accepted
it. Yet he never said anything half so silly as saying
that the question was set at rest. Aye, set at rest !! !
forsooth—whilst Ireland obtains a less portion of cor-
perate reform than England or Scotland!! The way
he has taken has set at rest one question and raised ten,
whilst on these ten he has weakened his own allies, and
given us, whom he treats as enemies, additional
strength. Altogether his Corporate Reform is the most
unwise as well as the most insulting measure that ever
was produced.
" We shall now see whether my friend, Mr. Thomp-
son, of the old corporation, be a man of his word. If
he be, we hail him as a Repealer. If he be not true
to his own declaration, we shall not regret his loss,
though I candidly own I would be glad of his assist-
ance for the repeal, as that is the only thing that can
by any possibility serve Ireland.
" I am glad to see that you are a candidate for the
new Common Council. I will be one myself also, al-
though I will, of course, leave the office of Lord
Mayor to one of our opulent and patriotic mercantile
friends, Cornelius M'Loghlin, George Roe, or John
Power, or men of that calibre. But we must make
our arrangements in every ward to the satisfaction of
the Liberal party. The moment I can get back to
Dublin I will go from ward to ward and get a commit-
tee appointed to ascertain who are the fittest candi-
dates, and who are most likely to obtain popular sup-
port. r should vitorthe voters not to-pledge themselves
to any individual until we can call wardmotes, er meet.
ings in each ward, to select candidates. By that means
we will prevent proper candidates from clashing with
each other, or improper candidates fivom forestall-
ing promises. Indeed I think any man, who, for selfish
motives, creates division or dissension in any ward, will
deserve rejection. I also think that any man who will
not submit his claims to a decision of the wardmote,
previous to the day of election, ought to be rejected
for that reason alone. Aly constituents know I have
but one wish, and that is, to procure a respectable and
patriotic Common Council, who will look to the due
administration of the corporate funds, and, above all
things, to the reduction of the grinding taxation under '
which the city of Dublin labours beyond any other
town in the British dominions.

" The moment I can get to Dublin I will. In the
mean time I implore of the electors not to commit
themselves to any candidate, unless upon the express
terms of his submitting to be regulated by a wardmote,
or meeting of the Liberals of the ward. I pledge my-
self before to-morrow fortnight to hold such meetings.
If we all act in conjunction, we shall carry, by a tri-
umphant majority, a Liberal Common Council. If we
divide and disgrace ourselves by selfish squabbles, we
will do away with the little that is good in the Bill,
and become the laughing-stock of our enemies.

" lam convinced that the great prospect of the re-
peal being speedily carried depends on the minter in
which the new Common Council shall be returned. If
I am allowed to suggest to each ward the mode of con-
sidering what candidates should go to the poll, I will
take care to have no one proposed without the consent
of the majority of the electors in each ward, and thus
secure a happy and useful result. Of course Ido not
dream of dictating to anybody. All I want is, to be
allowed to assist in making an arrangement to secure
success for the best men in each ward.
" Faithfully your's,
"DANIEL O'CONNELL.
" Richard Barrett, Esq."

NCENDIARISM AT BLACKBURN (IRE-
LAND). _

It is with very great pain we make an announcement
which cannot fail to fill with alarm the public generally,
and especially that important part of the public whose
property is invested in the staple manufacture of this
county. Within the last six-and-thirty hours, circum-
stances have transpired which leave no reasonable ground
for doubt that the fiendish spirit of incendiarism is at
work amongst the boys employed in the cotton-mills in
this town. Two or three cases of attempts to set fire
to factories (one of them too successful) will probably
be brought home to parties now in custody; but in the
present state of matters, just in the first flush of the dis-
covery, the affair has not been so far unravelled that we
can present our readers with the minute detail which we
should desire to lay before them. So far as can be at
present ascertained, the main facts appear to be as fol-
low .--

On Wednesday last, at one o'clock in the afternoon,
a fire was discovered in the mixing-room at Messrs.
Turner's mill, at Bank-top, in Blackburn. A alarm
was given, and three fire-engines (which, by the by, are
said to have been in a rather inefficient condition), to-
gether with a detachment of the police, were speedily
on the spot. After much exertion the fire wag ex-
tinguished, before it had done very considerable damage,
one hundred pounds being probably the value of the
property destroyed. There were circumstances attend-
ing the breaking out of the fire which raised a slight
suspicion that its origin was not accidental, but for some
days nothing transpired which could give that suspicion
any particular direction. Yesterday afternoon, how-
ever, a spinner employed in the same mill again
smelled fire, and on going into the roving-room he
discovered that a quantity of bobbins were in a blaze.
These he fortunately succeeded in extinguishing, and
no further damage was done. But the occurrence of
course confirmed the suspicion previously existing. A
lad employed in the middle wareroom was observed to
conduct himself so strangely, and to manifest so much
tremor, that it was immediately supposed he was in
some way connected with the fire. He was seized by
one of the men, and after much threatening confessed
he was concerned, with several others, in setting fire to
the mill, both on Wednesday and yesterday.
The lad's name is Thomas Clayton ; on his person
were found two lots of lucifer matches. Upon his in-
formation three others, named Win, Kenyon, Wm. Coun-
sel!, and Wm. Stirzaker, were at once arrested ; as
well as James Stirzaker, brother to the last named of
the above. The ages of the four first-named lads do
not appear to be more than about fourteen.
From the voluntary statements already made by some
of the lads, there is reason to believe that James Stir-
zaker was the author of the disastrous fire which burned
Messrs. Livesey and Rodgett's mill to the ground. His
younger brother says that he admitted the fact to him,
and that he also instigated him (William Stirzaker) to set
fire to Messrs. Turner's mill, for which purpose he sup-
plied him with a box of lucifers, part of which he gave to
Clayton. The lad also said that the remainder of th,e
matches in the box, after those given to Clayton were
taken out, were hidden upon the premises, and upon his
pointing out the place his statement was found correct.
Besides the two decided attempts which have been
made to burn down Messrs. Turner's mill, both of which
have been happily frustrated, these young villains have
confessed to an arrangement which they had planned,
whereby the second attempt was to have been made last
Saturday night instead of yesterday, but they were pre-
vented from putting their arrangement into practice
by several accidental circumstances which we need not
detail.
It is impossible at present to trace these diabolical
crimes to any sufficient motive. The lads talk of spite
against certain overlookers and spinners, but, perhaps,
in a few days others may give a different aspect to this
most lamentable affair. In the meantime the five lads
are detained in safe custody, and will be brought up
before the Magistrates this day for a first examination,
and we do mosi sincerely hope that the inquiries
are already set on ii;et
h 0 nehly
all concerned may meet he ►
punishment t ey s
lead to such a resulwt.thica_ t
deserve.—Limerick Standard.
MONDAY.
Of sixt five
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soners brought up by
morning, with others,
all
at two o'clock on Sunday young hearty fellows, wereth charged, eight, with having,
partitions of pauper inmates of the Workhouse, simultaneously risen,
provision store of Mr. Bell, and
and broken the bedsteads and
apartments, demolished the windows, thrown the broken
adjoiningrieiousother actsof a riotous and outrageous
ages were from 15 to '2O, and the fellows
n timbersature nature.
committedi
Tnthoevtialr
exhibited the utmost recklessness and hardihood.
The next batch, sixteen, were put forward, charged
with having, between two and three o'clock on Sun-
day afternoon, revolted, as a body, and proceeded
to acts of a very serious nature. They broke se-
veral windows, assaulted and repelled the officers of
the Institution, ripped open their own and other beds,
and, deliberately, with a view of firing the whole
building, now containing over 1,700 inmates, ignited
the large quantity of straw thus obtained. Alarmed at
the extent to which these youthful depredators had
proceeded, the principal officers of the house despatched
messengers for the police, having first kept the attacking
party at bay. The police, in strong force, headed by
Sub-Inspector Donoghue, were soon on the spot ; but
their presence rather infuriated than repressed the
rioters, who had now assumed a determined front, and
gave battle to the police. The contest was, however,
of short duration. Twenty-four of them were soon ren-
td:cired.Grt combat," Eta-wade to surrender at dis-

" Burlington House, Aug. 1840.
" Mr Lonn,—The question of the justification of
the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian States for
the extraordinary use of his high police power never
having had the opportunity of being discussed in Par-
liament, it becomes necessary for me, who undertook
the bringing this question forward, to address your
Lordship, that you may justify Sir Howard Douglas
while I vindicate the character of the lonians, who,
simply because they were in opposition to the Go-
vernment of Sir Howard Douglas, have been most
maliciously stigmatised by him as disloyal to
our sovereign and disaffected to the protection of the
British Government. The most unjustifiable and ground-
less insinuations have been thrown out against certain
lonians of plotting and conspiring against our Govern-
ment in those States, which insinuations have been
made the excuse by Sir Howard Douglas, for declaring
the whole people as unfit for the enjoyment of free in-
stitutions. My Lord, this is the old Tory system. Plots
and conspiracies are the very essence of Tory misgo-
vernment. Coercion is the Tory principle—by
discontent, to declare the people as unfit for the eT6v-
meat of free institutions. And this principle—my Lord,
to my regret do I say it, you approve of, when in your
letter to Sir Howard Douglas, you say, " I yield, how-
ever, to the strong conviction which you express. that
changes of this kind would be dangerous, confirmed as
your opinion is by the wanton conspiracy which was
organised in Greece with the assistance of lonian
agents." And now, my Lord, las confidently declare,
that there was no conspiracy. A wanton conspiracy !
there was none whatever. And the truth of
this is fully established by the letter of the minister of
justice at Athens, after Sir H. Douglas had on the
strength of this his plot, organised in Greece, put forth
the fell force of his high police power. What says the
Minister of Justice at Athens ? " lam bound sincerely
to declare, that all that has taken place in the lonian
Islands was done without the knowledge of the Greek
Government, nor does any connection exist between
those events and what has happened in Greece." Now,
my Lord, where is the justification of Sir Howard Dou-
glas on the strength of this his conspiracy, for entering
by force the houses, and seizing by force the papers
public and private of Cavaliere Vinotoxides, Count
Roma, Pettrizzopulo, and others, for holding up these
people as disaffected and disloyal ; afraid, however,
openly to charge them with crime, and worse than
cowardly, when no fault could be found, for offering
them no reparation whatever, and, with regret I must
say it, instead of reparation, the British Government
has added insult to their wrongs. It has justified
the acts of Sir Howard Douglas, by conferring, honours
upon him, and Lord Melbourne and your Lordship have
allowed the agent of Sir Howard Douglas in all this
mischief to approach the Turone with an address in
favour of Sir Howard's government. In vain have I
appealed against this last act is every way disreputable.
To return to the Lord ,High Commissioner's con-
spiracy. This conspiracy, az the Lord High Commis-
sioner states in his letter to your Lordship, formed the
ground for adopting the measure (the Order in Coun-
cil) entrusted to his discretion—that of dissolving tbo
last lonian Parliament. Again, under the plea of this
his conspiracy, all intercourse between the islands and
the continent of Greece was prohibited. Trade stood
still to watch this mountain in labour. Having then,
through the exercise of his high police power, seized
the papers of individuals, prohibited all intercourse
with the continent of Greece, and by such means
establishing a belief in his conspiracy, the Lord
High Commissioner sends nut his double lists
for the election of his new Legislative As-
sembly ; not quite satisfied with having the nomina-
tion of this Assembly he declares every one his oppo-
nent who does not go through the ceremony of voting
for his nominees. My Lord, I stop to ask you distinctly,
whether Sir Howard Douglas made an inquiry so as to
save the lonians from the stigma of disaffection and dis-
loyalty? or whether, on the other hand, he did not
wantonly attach this stigma of disaffection to the Bri-
tish interests in the lonian Islands to serve his own
ends ? And now, my Lord, if the latter, whether the
Lord High Commissioner deserved the honours con-
ferred on him, and whether his agent, Dr. Valetti,
should have been allowed the honour of being presented
to her Majesty? One word, my Lord, with respect to
the interference of the Patriarch of Constantinople in
the Church affairs of the lonian States. The Patriarch
in this may have gone a step too far in support of his
religion ; he may have shown in his zeal for his own,
religion too great a jealousy of the Protestant Mission-
aries in the lonian States. Right or wrong as the
patriarch may be deemed to have acted, I think your
Lordship must. admit that in matters touching the
religion of a country, particularly when that religion is
either of the Greek or Romish Church, the giving
umbrage to suspicions of proselytism is of all things the
most impolitic, and conning from a protecting power
most unjust. But surely, my Lord, some difference
must be allowed, some extenuation is due to the patri-
arch for the offence committed, if offence it was, when
the act of interference was not voluntary. The fact,
as your Lordship well knows, was that the Lord High
Commissioner, desirous of making some alterations
in the mode of selecting the pries* sent to the
patriarch of Constantinople, as the head of the
Greek Church in the lonian States, for his con-
sent. 'rhe patriarch, disapproving of the alteration
proposed, refuses his consent, and considering the high
authority from whence the proposition proceeded, he
(the Patriarch) thought it his duty to publish the rea-
sons for this dissent, which reasons giving great offence
to the Lord High Commissioner, the dismissal of the
Patriarch through our Ambassador at Constantinople
was obtained. This dismissal I have heard extolled as
a grand diplomatic stroke, as showing the sups rierity of
our influence at Constantinople over that of Russie. I
have too good an opinion of Lord Palmerston's foreign
policy to think otherwise but that he must regret such a
puny display of his superior influence. But I would ask
your Lordship whether Russia could require a better
cause for discontent, for her own interests, amongst the
lonians, supposing Russia has a design of seeking pos-
session of these islands, than that of an offence against
the religion of the people from their present protecting
power. The dismissal of the Patriarch being obtained the
Lora High Commissioner passes an act prohibiting all
books, vamphlets, newspapers, &c., treating on the affairs
of Churci: and State in the lonian Islands, from being
read, severe penalties being attached to disobenience
to this Act. And all this I have in vain laid before
your Lordship, to save those who have been wronged
from the insult of seeing rewarded and received with
distinction—the Lord High Commissioner and his agent,
Dr. Valetti, the author and agent of all this mischief.
In the name of the Cavaliere Vinotoxides, Count Roma,
Signer Petrizzopulo, and others, I solemnly protest
against the conduct of the Lord High Commissioner as
injurious in the extreme to the British interests in those
Islands, and equally ceo I protest against the approval
of such conduct by her Majesty's Government. I should
have preferred, my Lord, delivering my opinion on this
subject, and protest from my place in the House of Com-
mons, but circumstances prevented me,and I have keen
obliged to adopt this mode, in some degree reprehen-
sible, of communicating to the public the ill effects of
the high police power vested ie the Lord High Com-
missioner by the Constitution, when improperly exer-
cised ; and those ill effects doubiy increased by your
Lordship and the Liberal Goverment approving of
such abuse. I have had no other wish since I became
personally acquainted with the lonian Islands, but to
see them established as an example to other protecting
Powers d the advantages to be derived fromr
beingo9d go-
vernment on liberal principles. I
they now arc, by an opposite cause,
the
usurpation of arbitrary power by other protecting nt9htee Instead
excuse for
Soyc-
reigns, as in the case of those Sovereigns placed by
treaty, as we were, over the lonian Islands as the pro-
tectors of Cracow. deserve yoTuhreyehoanvfie
-
dence—trust them, and they will My Lord, the lonian Islands de
trust
been shamefully calumniated by those who declaim
against them, as unlit
for the enjoyment of free institu-
tions. They deserve them from you for their own
the worth—they deserve them from you politically, seeing
the geographical position of these islands, and
ad-
vantages to be derived from them to the British empire
in the event of a war.
I have the honour to be, my Lord,
• Your obedient Servant,
(Signed) CHARLES FITZ ROY.
To the Right Hon. Lord John Russell, &c. &c.

In compliance with a requisition from the Pre-
fect of the Pas de Calais, 500 Spanish refugees are engaged in
finishing the works now going on at the Port of Cal#. A
like number is to be sent to La Rochellifor a smilar purpose.