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London, England, 1824-07-14 00:00:00

NEWFOUNDLAND SCHOOLS.

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Yesterday the first Annual Meeting of the
Friends and Supporters of Education of Youth in the Colony of
Newfoundland, by the establishment of schools there, was held
at the London Coffee-house, on Ludgate-hill; Sir H. brouil
tart., in the Chair. ,
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The Meeting consisted of about 20 or 30 Ladies, and some
half a dozen Gentlemen, besides the Committee.
The Cum RxAN, after gpologizing for his incompetency, di-
rected the Secretary to read the report, which began by congra-
tulating the Society on the support which it derived from various
quarters. It then went into a history of the state of the Colony
since its discovery by Cabot, in the reign of Henry VII. It
than showed that there were about sixteen schools on the island,
or about one to 1,800 souls. It was to remedy this great defect
that this Society had been established. The whole amount of
the Rinds of the Socieq during the last year, including the Go.
velment great of 5001., was 1,7001., and the expenditure was
1,1001., leaving en inadequate surplus. Government had also
granted land to the Society for building schools, and also free
passage* in ships of war, or transports, to Schoolmasters and
.Schoolmistresses. Besides this, Government had given 5001.
towards a new school, and 1001. per annum to pay a School.
master.

W. H. TRANT, Esq., moved a resolution that this was one
of the most important of our Colonies. It was, he, said, pecu-
liarly fitted for raising a hardy and enterprising set of men for
our navy. Its population was about 10,000, and the ships ern-
•ployed in its trade were more than 1,000. These considerations
would chew the value to be derived by extending the blessings
of education to that colony.
Wu. JR:tier r, Esq., in seconding the motion, directed their
attention to the importance of giving children such religious
'and moral education as would make them good subjects to the
State, and worthy members of our religious community.
The resolution was carried unanimously.
The Key. H. BUDD moved the second resolution. This was
the oldest of our Colonies, and while it had mainly contri-
buted to our own' national 'and maritime superiority, yet had
it derived but little advantage from the mother country.—
The lives of the Newfoundlandmen were of an amphibious
character, about six months being spent at sea, and the
other on land ; and to that they might have attributed, until
'now, the slow progress of education and moral improve-
ment in the Colony. It was a happy thing, however, that the
Government of the island had been taken out of the hands of
naval administration, and given to a Civil Government and
Council. The Satiety's schools were opened, as tar as possible,
on Dr. Bell's systeni ; but where most of the children were
thetas of Irish Catholics, it would have been most absurd to
have taught the Church of England Catechism. Twice a week,
however, the Catechism, was taught to the children of Church
of England parents, if required. He was sure that true Chris-
tian. benevolence would never cease to do good to mankind as
long as there was any to be done. The whole soil of humanity
had surely not yet been irrigated by the streams of the living
waters of instruction. It could not be fairly considered as in.
trusive in that Society to enter, with others, into the wide field
of universal charity and benevolence towards all mankind.—
This it was that gat: England so much influence and so vast a
superiority over the nations of the earth. It was thus that she
dispensed to every quarteraf the globe the blessings which /lea-
ven had so lavishly bestowed on herself.
Joule BLACEZ `sq., seconded the resolution.—As Eng-
land was making the greatest exertions to extend the blessings
of truth and knowledge to all pans of the world, surely New-
foundland ought not to he left out or forgotten.—Carried una-
nimously.
The Her. JOHN %VEST moved the third resolution, that,
owing to the defect in the number of schools in Newfoundland,
means should be taken to extend religious and moral intruction
in that colony.
Mr. S. Wrier (one of the respectable Society of Friends)
seconded the motion, because it contributed to extend the great
system of moral and religious improvement, which tended to
man's happiness both here and hereafter.
C. Itoaisso.ee, Esq., moved the next resolution. He had
been himself some tune in Newfoundland, and could speak
to the absolute necessity of doing those things for that Co-
lony which were the objects of this Society. It was strange
that the state of this valuable and hitherto much neglected
colony had been, until lately, almost unknown in this
country ; but now Government was engaged in conferring
ample benehts on it, and these would run hand in hand
with the objects of this Society. He had not thought that
there were so nanny as 16 schools in the island ; but this he
knew, that they were not to be called schools; they were
more places for the elsemblage of children to receive the sle-
meats of education, but no religious or moral instruction
te LIT
given to them.' The exertions of the Society,
would bring about a reconciliation with theintrab'itiiientalolttehe,
aborigines) of the island, and teach them the truths of the
tdospel.,.

CODINER, Esq., the founder of the Society, seconded
the Resolution, and detailed the attention and kindness of Go-
vertyment towards the Society.
PERCLYAL WHITE, Esq., in moving the sth Resolution,
could never think that they had too many tnortl and religious
societies in this country.
Several other Resolutions were put, and unanimously agreed
to ; and thanks having been voted to the Chairman, the Meet-
ing
We
.
We regret extremely the thin attendance on a meeting whose
objects are so highly important.

Mr. HART applied for leave to alter the tide of a calm which
had been erroneously set down in the paper. His client was
concerned for two du:at:kat cases, and instead of Ebera and
another, had written down C,onst. v. Harris, the latter cue
running more in his head, from big having been. more actively
concerned in it hitherto.

The LORD CHANCELLOR gave liberty to correct the entry
in the list. With respect to the list itself, he felt himself coat-
palled to deviate from his own order concerning it fora time,
on account of the absence of the Vice-Chancellor. He regret-
ted to say, that the state of his Honour's health was such as
rendered it very unlikely that he would appear in Court again
for the season. His Lordship proposed to adopt some other
mode fur Cariying on the business during his Honour's indis-
position, Probably he might prevail upon the Master of the
Rolls 'to sit in the Vice-Court during the day.

R 'ft HARBOUR.
The CounT was occupied the greater part of the day with
an argument, conducted by Counsel from both bars, fur and
against the verdict which had been pronounced upon the
nuisance, arising from the great dike which at present prevents
the flux and reflux of the sea, to the public annoyance and
injury.—Further hearing to-morrow.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JuLT 13.
The greater part of the causes tried at the Niri Prix: Sittings
of to-day were undefended, and none of them were of any pub-
lic interest.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, JULY 13.
Before the Lord Chief Jurtier BEST and a Special Jury.
SOADISS AND (mums L. WATTS.

This was an action of trout brought by the plaintiffs as the
assignees of T. W. Baker, a bankrupt, lately carrying en the
business of a tallow-chandler in Foley-street, Alarylebone, to
recover the stock in trade and household furniture of the bank-
rupt, of which it was alleged the defendant had wrongly taken
possession, under the following circumstances : —The defendant
held a warrant of Attorney from the bankrupt, for the purpose
of securing the payment of a certain sum of money, due to
himself and the bankrupt's mother, from the bankrupt. 'He
entered up judgment upon this instrument, and placed a writ
of execution in the hands of the Sheriff, who in coma:gee:ice
made a levy on the goods of the bankrupt. The defendant
afterwards took a bill of sale from the Sheriff, which the
plaintiffs contended was colourably given to him by the bank-
rupt for the purpose of defrauding the other creditors. The
plaintiffs called several witnesses from the Excise-office, and
also several inhabitants of the neighbourhood, to prove that
no visible change had taken place in the property of the bank.
rupt, after the making out of the bill of sale ; and the defendant
produced others to show that immediately after the execution
was sent into the premises, the screws of the bankrupt had
been discharged, and taken into the service of the defendant,
and had afterwards carried on the business in his behalf.
The LOAD CHIEF JUSTICE left it to the Jury to say whe-
ther they thought the transfer of the Property from the bank.
rupt to the defendant was a bona fide transaction, or only a'
colourable one : if they considered it a bow fide transaction,
they would find a verdict for the defendant ; and it not, they
would find a verdict for the plainuffa.
The Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiffs —Don ages
450/., being the value of the bankrupt's furniture and stock in
trade.

HIGH COURT OF ADMIRALTY, JULY 13.
TEE A.O IN C 0 U RT

It will be remembered that this was an action for &twee by
the cook of a private East India trader, against the master of
that vessel, for acts of cruelty and oppression, particularly for
a flogging, &c., inflicted on the complainant.
Lord STOWXLI. said, this Was a complaint„brOught by
John Thompson, a man of colour and , townie', who was
hired upon the 12th et April, .1822, OA a, return v9imito
the Nast Indies; as ?its`stated; In the 4priettg oreiuttiey
cook on bOard the Agincourt,—that is, as cook to thet,depert
fluent of the vessel In which the captain, seal the passengersusually messed together. This man complained of. several
acts of oppression-and violence committed upon him in the
course of that voyage; and among others, of the oppressive act
of being dismissed Irani his office of couk, and turned before the
tnast as a common mariner. The Captain, in his defensive plea,
had set forth that Thompson was in fact hired both as cook and
as mariner.—(The Learned Judge, after entering at sortie length
into this part of the case, decided that it was left in a very am-
biguous and doubtful state ; for though the Captain's plea. was
borne out upon the face of the snip's articles, it was to be ob-
served that Thompson was only a marksman ; that he could
not sign his name ; and that lie swore positively that the are
titles to which he subscribed his mark were, in truth, never
read over to him.)—lt appeared that Thompson was hired
and taken on board the slip at Madras, about the month
of April, 1823 ; and that, in the July following, he suf-
fered the acts of violence complained of, in the way of
punishment. It was not to be doubted that the masters of te-
glish merchant vessels had the power of correcting the different
mariners who sailed under them. But as that was matter to
be determined by 'the law of England, the Court would refer to
no foreign authorities on the subject. How far, or to what tie.
gree, one subject of the realm might inflict corporal punish-
ment upon another, was a question to be adjudged solely upon
the principles of English law. In the only law to which the
Court could refer, it regretted, that so far as it knew there was
no clause containing any statuory regulation respecting the
merchant-service. As the statute which regarded that service
contained' no such regulation, the matter must be considered
upon such principles as had governed the decisions of mouton
law courts on the subject. By those decisions it had been re-
peatedly held, that, allowing for the difference of years and
judgment, the master of a ship had a power of correction
over his mariners, analogous to that of a master in any trade
over his apprentices. The general rule .laid down, when
these subjects had' come under diecussion in other .couree,
was, that the punishment was always to be administered
with moderation. As a consequence of the principles on
which former decisions had proceeded, it would seem to follow,
necessarily that the party accused should always first be heard
in his own defence. This, indeed, was an indispensable rule
of universal justice, and th observed in the present as in
every other case. After adverting to the Cases where a more
sudden dispensation of justice was called for—as where acts
of outrage were of so sudden and violent a cherecter as to ren-
der themselves perfectly notorious to all on board, or in cases
of mutiny—circumstances that, while they in some degree oh-
, viated the necessity of investigation, made the delays of such
a process dangerous also—his Lordship went on to show that
in the present instance there was nothing to excuse a depute
cure from the rule. And then the Court proceeded to recapi-
tulate the parts of this case; the neglect and misconduct of
Burgess, under-cook to Thompson, in proceeding to wash the
rice intended for the captain anti paisengers' breakfast, in
water which had been polluted by scouring out a bucket that
had been used by the children on board the ship—the re-
munstriinces of Thompson—the opprobrious reply of Burgess
—the fight between them—Burgess's complaint to the cap.
tairi, and Thompson's flogging in consequence, by order of
the captain, who had never thought proper to Institute a
single Inquiry into the subject, and would riot hear a single '
word that Thompson had to offer in his defence, Under the
effects of that flogging, Thompson was confined to the curidy
for several days. His Lordship, after analyzing the contend.
irg evidence in the cause, and expressing his extreme dissatis-
faction with the conduct of the captain, pronounced the charges
, adduced by him against Thompson to he disproved. It was
endeavoured to be shown that Thompson, the head-cook, was
of a violent and passionate temper ; but the kitchen. was pro-
verbially famous for exciting angry temperaments. Sonic com-
plaints were alleged against his puddings; but the utmost that
was proved appeared to be, that occasionally his dough did not
rise sufficientlyavisitation with which the best regulated fa-
milies on shote were sometimes afilleted.—(A laugh.)—While
the concurrent testimony of tbe.passengers went to show that
Thompson was remarkable for the general good-nature and
attention he manifested, the same evidence proved against the
captain repeated acts of the most unbridled passion, 'tind
expressions of the most vulgar abuse, of which his conduct
to Colonel Pereira (one of his passenger) was a most ilia-
gracefulapecitreeti. Upon the whole of thesase, the Court de-
creed he Thompeon his costs, and 104.11. damages.

SKETCH OF MILESIAN CHARACTF.II, &c.
Mtt. EDITOR—The change (corn' war to peace,
though it has deprived our farmers of their
hunters, and their daughters of their piano-fortes
and Italian music-masters, is productive of one
manifest advantage--the Constitutional reform
in the interior of the State itself—the Repeal of
useless, pernicious or obsolete and inclement
laws—commercial renovation and abolition of the
profound systems of commerce of our forefathers—
internal economies connected with the modern
wonders of locomotion, whether by canals, by
steam, by land, or by coast.
Among these roost necessary innovations we
tnay reckon the vast portion of attention which
the British. Senate,. the,.taiitational Represen-
tation of the whole &jai Empire, has imposed
OD subjects connected with Ireland, that ill-
governed, barbarous, neglected, and vexed Isle
of the Atlantic, to which Shakspeare's " Bor.
moothes" might be said to assume the tranquillity
of a fish-pond.

The great advantage which a free Government
possesses over a despotism is the perfect inter-
change of sentiment and opinion, which the
silence, the uniform workmanship of a despotism
prevents—the " Audi ailerans partem" is the
noblest privilege of those who live in a free and
mixed ►nonarchy.. Sir William Jones had a
Polish Baron, a Count Potocci, as a visitor, while
the learned Philologist was canvassing for a
Welsh Shire or Borough, the Foreigner had to
pass the alkuholic ordeal of election, drunken-
ness and beef-eating festivity of John Bull,
through the entire southern width of the Island ;
his first observation was—.." Sir William, I have
found you in Merioneth (or elsewhere) at last ;
but pray explain to me why the English, whom
we picture to us as a grave reflecting nation, are
at this moment positively all drunk." " Dear Po-
tocci, you take us at a moment of weakness, but
though you see the dirty farrago in its foulest
collieries, yet from this source springs a harmony
in our State not less symphonious alai] the flute of
the Divine Aristogyton itself." s

All orders of this noble fabric of collected
isdom ctsotribute to fill their place in the British
Senate• ; and no subject can be stated which dues
not affect large masses of our community, and
which does not produce that most valuable inter-
change of thought, that vivacity of description,
which forms the life, soul, and energy of Eug•
1:m1Tc:otioseII.

Ninety days, or rather nights, were devoted
last Session to 'Nlilesian legislation and acneliora•
tion ; it is not in a month-me shall derive the
vast advantages which are about to be imparted
from this terseness of Idiscussion,--from this
sifting of Irish statisticsi political, ecclesiastical,
and. cuokunarcial, 94tr4firnktora in these day are
net, w posing
.....as,ol,4Starned, and exuberant
Ednitind OUrke Oiey proceed in Medial res,, or
they are coughed out of countenance, and out
of hearing, like Mr. Assistant Surgeon Hume,
of Commissariat notoriety, as well as artic depth
of calculation and powers of Cocker. I will
take the hint of the modern Senator, who claims
the attention of the House, has►en to important
consequence, and places prefatic iuuendo in
abeyance.

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Nothing can be more instructive to the cosmo-
politan observer of Europe, than the decided
difference in character and usoral rectitude of the
Euglish and Irish nations; .it is true Physical
idiernensis is often modified, if not changed alto»
gether, by artiticiel means.-7these are education
of the people, dissemination of property among
the bumbler orders of life, moral restraint,•re.;
ligious associations, connected with the irn-
provernent derived from the operation of this
admirable band in civil 'society ; there will' still
• be, however, .a decided difference, perhaps an
undeniable. aboriginal one between the inhabi-
tants of the sister island, and even their nearer
kinsman the Caledonian, who, we Irish, boast to
have first shipped with Ossian to Hebredia-n Isles,
or the larger continuity of olil Aibyn itself.
Let us mark our first fine shades of character in
the attempt of a portrait of un English and Irish
Gentleman.—The 'English Patrician is a proud,
honest, high-minded mart, public siiitited,-juSt in,
dealings, cordial to his inferiors, and regarded, in
the primary ~duties of a citizen in that noblest
occupation.; 'the rural diisemination of the rudi-
Mental or .eietrientery part •of .that law and the
usages
,of. that Constitution, which form the ad
of the world ; -
he is the second Stepto
the Throne of Justice ; the first .of Which is filled'
by his constables, bailiffs, and other humbler as-
sistantr.—trot unftequently: oracles,
of
depth of head end soundness of .judgmeut.- The
Seneschal of the 'Manor is the Chief Justice
of his
own territeries, in letter, meaning, intent, and
.value. This .said patrician is cold, phlegmatic,
repulsive, he avoidrestrangers, and his good opi-
nionand slow approaches ;
14tiined.by cantiotis
he knows lie is .known, his actions canvassed, and
all libk petty foihies arid vices the silent theme of
laughter or recrimination, A well-tired English.
mac of regular education, -nurtured in that ad-
mirable republicone of our first echouls, is really •
a most accomplished man, a safe companion, a
kind and sincere friend, turd a .charitmble. and
Valuable member of the community ; his foibles
are constitutional supremacy, of his,natiott, he is
in his own eyes the' firstof exalted' beiugs, para-
mount to a• foreigner, iadised umneersUrably turd'
decided ly above Scot, Qe. lt,ur Catubriare; his very
domestic habitrides he thinks argue, refitted opi.•
niOns of life. and manners ; he is 04 the whole n.
a good, virtuous, and high-minded man—but the
truNt repulsive companion and the most annoying
,'associate in a post-chaise, m4il-Coich, or' hoyt

Now for poor Pat.—Fortunately since the
Union of the two kingdoms the Irish character,
both individual and national, has become well
known to their more civilized countrymen
at the English side of the Channel. It is singu-
lar that, as since the days of Tacitus the an-
nalist, no nation was more celebrated than the
Irish for their love of justice, and impartial ad-
ministration of the laws ; so none of our Euro.
pears States, however feudal iu their customs,
can be more attached to the persons of their
superiors, than the wretched and half-starved
peasantry of this lovely Isle of Mists. The
very striking term for a gentlemau of ancient
descent, in the mouths of the peasantry, is a,
" Clean Gentleman." Antiquity of family is quite
indispensable to elicit that attachment,
when possessed, is no where iu the whole world
more remarkable. The poor Milesian vassal
relies on the family he lives under; he lama his
laud on the faith of being continued in the pos-
session of those fields which his ancestors held,
relying on the word of a gentleman ; he seeks
not a lease, or other documentary security for
the completion of the contract. This, is the
tenure of a vast number of poor people under
old families, on whose honour they can rely.
Such is the respect for a gentleman from the
lower orders in Ireland ;---let us look at the
Gentleman himself. Family pride and heredi-
tary consequence are common to alt those coon-
tries in this Empire. In Scotland and in Ireland,
perhaps, our acknowledged poverty of the higher
classes, compared with John Bull's more opu-
lent children, renders us more alive to feudal
supremacy than elsewhere. We no where hear so
much of the yellow clay breaking out. May not
such appreciations be fostered by the sud-
den elevation of our tradesmen and shopkeepers
to the rank of gentry conferred on them in a
generation or two, by the acquisition of a few
thousands of ready money. An Englishman be-
gins to consider his amount of capital sufficient
to enter on trade necessarily when he has rea-
lized sufficient to induce an Irishman in his own
country to turn gentleman, and keep up his este-
blisment in a station of life to which he has not
before aspired. No two,classes of gentry, how-
ever, can possibly be more distinct, or generically
different from 4rich other; than that of these
nouvium richer, and the old established stock,
known by the appellation " Clean Gentleman."
To his inferiors, the metamorphorsed tradesmen,
affords scarcely any thing worth notice, except
that, from the circumstance of Ireland's being au
exporting country, that particular class of men
has -sufered more especially than in most other
countries.' The ignorance of the first principles
of trade 110(1,6)m-twee has beers no where snore
notorious :than in Ireland ; the dreadful crash,
front the breaking of the numerous banks, inci-
dental to the change from war to peace, and con-
sequent remission of prices of agricultural and
pastoral produce, and loss of credit, has involved
vest masses of our population in the very abyss
of misery.

A gentleman of Ireland, then, is now usually
a man of family and hereditary standing in the
country, most usually of colonial extraction,
who traces his arrival in Ireland to either It
William or to Cromwell ; some (few 'compara-:
tively) of old Milesian aboriginal origin are in-
deed to be found scattered over the western and
remote parts of Ireland, especially in the southern
parts of the island. The 'squire is proud, iner-,
curial, animated, enthusiastic ; he endeavours to
keep care ut defiance, by largely partaking of
the sports of the field, and affording a hospitable
'reception to his kindred and acquaintance to 'an
extent which neither prudence or knowledge of
the world entitle the possersor to enjoy, though
he cannot command 100!. Irish without as much
parchment and perplexity of tnanteuvring us an
English tradesman would employ to get credit
for ten times the sure ; still, if he is about to
form a connection himself, or to marry his chil-
dren, he looks to an establishment proportionate
to men of high family and good fortune in
; he is irascible, not over prudent in his
pecuniary concerns, or actuated by that abhor-
rence of running into debt which we find in more
civilized countries. The Irish gentleman (if he
resides at home; which by the way few do.whose
incomes bear the disbursement of an English re-
sidence) generally lives above his income ; you
see no system its either his place or in his expert-
diture; he cannot be persuaded of the fact, that
it is good, sense and good policy to snake those
who live on his estate comfortable and contented ;
on the contrary, he
,screws them -down by all
mariner of rack-renting and oppression ; he dis.
possesses the old tenant whose long lease-has
expired, and selects new ones, not from appre-'
ciations of character and former good conduct
from their late landlord, but filial the audacious
and mendacious effrontery 'with which they asto.
wish him by promise of pecuniary augmentatioh
in his rents ; the promise of these fellows bus be-
come proverbial falsehood. In no country is the
value of character among gentry or cotter, trades-,
men or peusant,,less regarded—the tkigher Classes
chuckel with delight When'onib of' their neigh...,
hour'scows Are honglied, that is, biseete4 across.
the back- sinews' of their four kg'S,, or the', Whole,
corn and stock of a large farm has been.
drawn' in 'one night, or a field of green
,sward
turned up 414 the spade few,.hßOrS!,,
Its-
stead of thrilling asiociations to. detect cf!q,
tedinhuorhig Mojesty "s. NW's.; theyCOnnive at the
villain, if suspected, in mean apprehension of
suffering themselves.
It is only lately that Justices of his Majesty's
Peace have become asharued to take billies, and

impart jastieo as, a ettiutrpro qty.- 'Ted boa:bean
driven home, , potatoea; deg out, atid. all the,Are-
sin'ese of .rural oceupatiee. by the suitom.of:the
impartial Magistrate.. ' .
The national vice of duelling'shes .forturtatell
been laughed into discredit aod disrepute. :We
despise the duellist, as a dangerous, turbulent
companion, and no longer plume ourseleet AK
our friends iu the society of such„characterL.
Most of the above distinctive characteristics
apply to the general masa of ,MilesieseGeutie-
man ; there are, however; a certain proportidn of
the higher.class of Irish, of 014 end very relpeat-
able families, and certainly this, ,the pechliar
excellence of which the nobility can boast, seems
to form a coMmou possession its all the nations of
Europe, where the customs and peculiar manner
of the first class of society have rubbed off national
asperities and national peculiarities; for it is ac-
knowledged that the Baron who has' mixea with
various nations of Europe, is prettymuthtbesemo
in sentitneut, manner, or general charecteriatir,
whether his feudal hall he perched on the,Al-
- heath of distant Scotland, or the woody hills
of Bohemia, or in the low lying and fertile fields
of England. Yet; still we find an accomplished
Irish gentleman possesses excellencies peculiarly
his own ; he has the levity and auitnation of the
Frenchmais, without his heartlessness Qr. frivolity
—he is a safe companion, blessed with perpetual
hilarity of disposition, animated within elevated
flow of animal spirits, the life and, soul of society
—very much a favourite of the 40ftor.sex, be,
cause his own predilections accord with their
amiable propensities ; he is as proud as any Eng-
lishman alive, but possesses this, peculiar excel-
lence ; you have not the same necessity to thaw
the ice and to dissipate the superinpeuding phlegm,
to dissipate the sullen scowl, and to neutralize
the splenetic efforts of acquaintance which en-
circle the interior, and form the repulsive exte-
rior of the high-bred Englishmen of birth and
education—an excellent being he is,.when known
after the sacrifice of a first attempt on the pat of
the stranger to realize his acquaintance., The
Irishman is less inaccessible, and, when known,
just us distant to those whom he discovers by
that fine tact which supplies the place of instinct
in the animal creation, by which a patrician of
highly wrought and &lel), polished mind and
habitude are ever distinguished, and can so easily
distinguish who belong to their own circle. Much
as the capacity fur amelioration, of which our
lower classes are susceptible, it is doubtful whe-
ther we can discover an equal capacity of the
evolution of national and useful talent anon
them, which by universal appreciation of all na-
tions has been granted to that most delightful
and accomplished being, an Irishman of rank,
family, and education, who has ,seen men and
manners beyond St. Patrick% Isle.

IlEnotc Bisnoe.—The siege of Clonmell, in
the year 1650, is one of the most memorable in
the annals of Ireland. Hvon O' NEIL, a spirited
youth, with only twelve hundred men of provin-
cial troops, maintained the town so gallantly that
the temper, arts, and military strength of tuoat-
NV CLL. were put tea severe trial. liontusM'EGAN,
the Roman Catholic Bishop of Ross, was parti-
cularly active in collecting animators, and lead-
ing on the remnants of the troops that Caosi-
writ, had put to flight in different engagements.
At length', this unfortunate Prelate fell into the
hands of Lord'Bitoantia, one of the Parliamen-
tarian Generals, who, well aware of the value 451
his prisonei-, resolved to turn him to his advan-
tage. He knew'that.the influence of his prisoner
over the RoyaliSts was unbounded, and therefore
offered him his life if .he would.ute his influence
vvith the garrison of a fort called Carrickdrogid.
The Bishop promised, and so he did,' but not in
the way his Lordship hoped.. For, on being
conducted to-the fort,, he intreated the garrison.
in the name of Heaven, their religion, love of
country, and the spirits of
,those that had fallen
in sUpport of all that was dear to them, to main-
tain their fort, and bury themselves in its ruins
rather,thati surrender it to an implacable enemy.
As soon as he hail done this, be turned round,
looked upon Lord BnonniLL with a cmile of coal-
-plucency, unit desired to he' led to death. lie was
almost immediately executed on the brunch of a
tree, within view of the fort. And thus perished
the b'ruie BOOTIIGALACH Al'AoonAteAst, as his
name is written in the Irish Lunguage, who acted
I:eaglaidilsnvittlytlfrhoism'bplaritOldeipthlee, aCnihdU who
t
,
eipoused..

Government his given 16,001)1. nise' ds the erection of a
Commmulti.t in cork.
• Neitly 6.00 POND* haye einbittlied se Limerick since the lst
of May.; for the Britiiiti American Vediiiiiesseid'iditarnicti.
, .
The Earl .of Dortooiaissetts:,' while proceeding
to. iiikocklafty from CloniusL, ciadosiday evening-, accompanied
hi.niaservaut, was thrown ftvin-his gig, in consequence of his
tonit.fi4ving ,t4mblttl, bus wee re,.joiceto add, that his Lord
stiin sustained t.oln,iiity.whatevev;
servant was less for..-
tunate, haying melted' some partial bruise*, which rendered it
neecitiary that he s,hoillit be confined to his bed nest
seat:lol 1.13-
which usa tl
tei
:v:
J.'. ;:t t):
etc 4 'l4!icit t
ci)l3tcet'r BACONthere
of that
it
tn was
: cyat. 'eat statueyi l far-.0
; Instead
Of preserving with religious veneriition, thOuglit
proper: to 'ietnave. blare
dune reheusvedtosit for ninny
everyrupo n t)soti dayssot nnet o f greatestsummers
wn
that place and iu
r k
Constantly resorted in fine vrett
ti".r, till Lort%
rrraus
whos;e: house was. c0ni;„,,,%,„a., eery ,covetous
to how sir r ran .0 *lie giOrisCOSI
CIS used to send his servant
.for
mail beer due
refnaing him log his hours of study, suddenly
utrated
Sir
t.a„!ty more, the mark of disrespect so
sooktaticis, that he from that time for,
ins place in the garden.