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THE ASSASSIN.—The following is the latest
gossip we have heard about the wretched youth : —No clue
had been obtained at a late hour yesterday as to the writer of
the treasonable documents, or to the place at which the crape
cap and sword found at the prisoner's lodgings were bought.
The powder flask purchased for 2s. of Mr. Hayes at the time
Oxford bought the pistols, has not yet been discovered. It
was stated last night that the prisoner had made no communi-
cation of any importance to the Sheriffs or Governor of New-
gate; but that the officers engaged were actively employed
throughout the day in prosecuting inquiries relative to some
extraordinary circumstances connected with the prisoner's act.
On the refusal of Mr. Humphries, Mrs. Oxford has secured
the services of Mr. Pelham, the solicitor, to manage the de-
fence of her son. That defence will be insanity, and Mrs.
Oxford states that her son inherits it from his father, as she
can prove by many witnesses from Birmingham.
76, KING WILLIAM-STREET, BANK OF
ENGLAND, AND 39,
ALBENIARLE-STREET, PICCADILLY.—
DEAFNESS AND DEFECTIVE VISION.—A greater proof of
he value of the Messrs. S. and B. Solomons' Invisible Ope-
rative Voice Conductor, and newly-invented Spectacle Lenses,
cannot be addaced than the circumstance of the many thou-
sands of individuals who have obtained the greatest benefit and
instant relief, and the constant immense demand there is
for them, and the patronage they have and daily continue to
receive. The Messrs. S. and B. Solomons disclaim all con-
nexion with persons of the same name and the sale of amber
spectacles ; the pernicious use of amber spectacles being now
well known to the public, and the vendor being aware of it,
he has therefore altered their name, by leaving out the word
" amber," and calling them "Patent Spectacles. " Dr.
Andrew Ure, Esq., M.D., F. R. S., Sze. states amber is most
powerfully electrical by friction, very hot, to such an extent
as to explode into fragments. The workmen, tos, are subject
to a nervous tremour in their wrists, arms, &c. ; they encounter
great danger by handling such dreadfully-excited electrics:
Amber is of such a soft and sticky nature that it is apt to take
tire ; and when exposed to warmth, it swells, bubbles up, and
will burn away with flame. This statement is further con-
firmed by Sir D. Brewster and Pliny, as also by Parks and
Hems, on Chemistry. The pernicious and destructive use of
such a material for spectacles to imperfect vision may be ascer-
tained at any respectable optician's in London.
EXTRAORDINARY AND DARING FEAT.—
One day last week, a workman connected with the St. Helen's
Colliery, in this county, repaired to the bottom of the shaft,
after his labour for the day was over. Not finding the rope at
the bottom, he actually commenced ascending the conductors
in the shaft, which is upwards of 130 yards deep, and in a very
short time gained the bank ! The individual who performed
this rash and daring act is named Nixon ; and although he is
quite a dwarf, has done what probably not ene man in a thou-
sand would dare to attempt. It need hardly be added that 14,
received a severe reprimand for his conduct. Had the aUgine-
man arrived at the top of the shaft, be would instantly have sent
the cages down, which would have dashed the daring aspirant
to the bottom and killed him immediately : he could not possi-
bly have escaped, there being only room for the cages to pass and
repass. —Durham Chronicle,

The Marquis of NORM ANBY said that the sub-
ject to which the petition referred was then under the
consideration of the Government.

Lord HATHERTON presented a petition from
Walsall, in the county of Stafford, against what was
called Church Extension.
Earl GOSFORD presented a petition from Armagh
against intrusion in the Scottish Church.
The Earl of ABERDEEN presented a number of
petitions in favour of his Bill for the amendment of the
existing laws of Church patronage in Scotland.
CHURCH OF SCOTLANDBENEFICES BILL.
The NOBLE EARL then moved the Order of the Day
for the second reading of the Church of Scotland Be-
nefices Bill. He said that having on former occasions
occupied a considerable portion of their Lordships'
time, when he laid upon the table of the House the
Bill of which he had now to move the second reading,

it was not necessary, on the present occasion, to enter
into any detailed view of the objects of the measure.
It was necessary, however, to occupy their attention
for a short time in consequence of the circumstances in
which the question was at present placed ; and it was
necessary for him to state the reasons for which he
thought their Lordships ought to argue to the princi-
ple of this Bill, by allowing it to be read a second time.
It was his conviction that, if the existing dissensions
in the Church of Scotland were to be terminated in a
manner at all consistent with the preservation of the
national establishment, it must be by some measure
founded on the same principles as this Bill. He had
already mentioned to their Lordships that he felt the
greatest satisfaction at the manner in which the Bill
had been received. in Scotland. It had been received
with satisfaction by a large body of the clergy, and by
the most exemplary and eclightened of the laity. Not a
day passed in which he did not receive the most urgent
entreaties from all parts of the country, to forward the
measure without dclay.—(Hear.) But it was un-
doubtedly true that the-General Assembly had taken a
less favourable view of it. A Noble Marquis opposite
had asked him the other day if it was his intention to
persevere in this measure after the declaration of the
majority of the country against it. He (Lord Aberdeen)
did not think the opinion of the country had been so ex-
pressed, and he assured the Noble Marquls that neither
directly nor indirectly bad he authorised any person to
say that lie had any intention of abandoning the Bill.
The objections of the General Assembly were so mon-
strous and unheard of, that none of their Lordships would
agree to them, whatever might be their own objections to
the Bill. His Noble and Learned Friend opposite (Lord
Brougham) had at an early period of the Session stated
his opinion, without denying the:necessity for Legislative
ititerferenee on the subject, that before any new step was
taken, the existing law should be duly executed and
obeyed. That sentiment was undoubtedly a just
and natural one, and peculiarly appropriate on the
part of the Noble and Learned Lord, who might be ex-

petted to feel more deeply interested in the matter than
most of their Lordships. He (the Earl of A.) should, un-
der ordinary circumstances, have approved of that opinion.
On the present occasion, however, when he recollected
thet the parties in the case were the members of the
Established Church of Scotland, .and when he recol-
lected that the error into which they bad fallen was at
least an error committed in good faith ; and when he
recollected, in addition, that the judgment of
their Lordships bad rendered the act of the
Scottish Church a complete nullity, he thought
that by introducing a measure which should practically
exclude the illegal decision of the Church, and which
night qualify the principle which they had introduced,
and settle the law upon the point—he thought that by
doing so they would put an end to those dissen-
sinus which had so long prevailed in Scotland, and
which, unless some steps were taken, there was
but little prospect of soon seeing terminated.
The measure which he introduced had been violently de-
n:>ucced as one which had produced a principle of un-
warrantable interference on the part of thz. State, and
which iavolved the exercise of a power unheard
of in the most bloody times.—( Hear.) It was also
said to be the prelude of a tyranny which was to un-
cluistian4.e. the parishes of Scotland, and trample on
the sacred rights of conscience.—(Hear, hear.) Now
ho (the Earl of Aberdeen) believed, on the con-
trary, that the measure would contribute to the
spiritual independence of the Church, and would

only determine its proper jurisdiction.—(Hear.

That position might seem somewhat startling, but the
host way to answer such objections was at once to
recal their Lordships' attention to what the pro-
visions of the Bill were. Being desirous of giving
effect to the principle of non-intrusion, and finding that

the law had already pronounced the exercise of autho-
rity by the Church as illegal, his object was to give the
greatest extent to the exercise of a discretion on the part
of the people to make objections to the presentee, and also
the greatest latitude, consistent with the existing laws,
to the Church Courts in judging of those objections.
The Noble Earl then briefly recapitulated the provisions
of his Bill and continued. He had heard something ap-
proaching to a whisper that in the present measure he
had not sufficiently regarded the interests of the people,
but he would be glad to know in what manner he could
extend the privileges of the people without entirely abro-
g„ting patronage altogether. It bad been said by Sir
Henry Moncrief that it was the part of the people to
make objections, and of the Presbytery to judge of them ;
and he wished to know what greater power he could give
them than to enable them to state every possible objection.
It had been stated in the General Assembly, that ayr.

Macleod having been appointed to a parish in one of the
Western Islands, inhabited by the Macdonald clan, some
of whose ancestors had formerly been massacred by the
clan of the Macleods, he could not obtain any reception
from the parishioners.—( LEiukv.hter.) Now in such a case

the Presbytery might exercise their discretion of removing
him from that particular parish. The patrons were the
only parties who had the least shadow of pretence for dis-
content, for the Bill considerably restricted the rights of
patronage, and yet patrons had not objected to the Bill.
Notwithstanding this, the Bill had been stigmatized in
quarters where it was not understood, and where only popular
clamour was sought to be excited, as a Bill to exalt the
rights of lordly patronage.—(Hear, hear.) The Gene-
ral Assembly had passed a resolution, in which they
claimed for the Church exclusive jurisdiction over
the qualifications and conditions of admission to
parishes. Now, as to qualifications, they might be
right, that is as to personal fitness, &c. ; but as to con-
ditions, the admission of their claim i.! that respect would
be to revive the old Church tyranny against which their
Lordships had better make a stand now, and if patronage
were to be abolished, let them abolish themselves, and not
allow the law to be defied.—(Hear, hear.) lie meant
by acting judicially the considering the objections of the
people, and the giving to them their due weigi.t, and:ee
believed this was the interpretation put upon the expres-
sian by the supporters of the veto themselves, from what
bad fallen from one of the most able and zealous of that
body, who ,regretted that the clause in the Bill, enabling
the Presbytery to pay attention to the state of the parish
in their decision, had only been introduced into the Bill
parenthetically for if it had been introduced absolutely
under cover of that clause, they. might have given full
street to the desires of the communicants in every case.
Now, he did not wish to give thew the power of giving
effect to the veto in one way, while they were preventing
them from doing so in another. He knew their object
was to legalize the veto, and his was to prevent it ; at the
same time reserving to the people the greatest possible
exercise of their rights. The last resolution complained
that they were not sufficiently protected against coercion,
when giving effect to their solemn convictions. He had
clever intended to protect them. He had no wish to inter-
fere with Ecclesiastical Courts while they kept within bounds,
but he would never preclude the civil power from taking
cognizance of acts done in excess by those Courts, and
which were unjust, oppressive, and illegal. But he had
dwelt too long upon these objections. lie had received
intimation that these existed, in quarters for which he was
bound to entertain the highest respect. But he believed
the greatest objection to the measure was, that it gave too
great powers to the Presbytery, although he proposed that
no presentee should be rejected, unless the grounds of his
disqualification were stated ; and in that part of the mea-
sure, he had provided a safeguard against any abuse. He
had received tee assurance of the most eminent advisers,
that the Bill contained nothing at all contrary to the exist-
ing statutes, by which the Church of Scotland was esta-
blished. lie requested the attention of the Noble Lord
on the Woolsack, and of the Noble and Learned Lord opi
poste to this fact—( Hear, hear)—and after what le.
had stated on this part of the subject, it was not ne-
cessary to occupy their Lordships further upon it.
The General Assembly had acted in contempt of their
Lordship's decision, and had to a eert •
parishes i sh
pees certain
vacant,,
perse-
vered in that contempt. They did nut, it was true, pro-
pose to give effect to their first decision,
vlace. ila when rkthe
were
but they wen;,still s determinedentee wa s u
unacceptable
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tpaibnlge tthoe
already left vacant by that means ; and in addition they
had seven unfortunate gentlemen of a Presbytery
—(Hear, hear)—they had seven unfortunate gentle-
men suspended, and their snspension continued; and
more, a sentence had becn pronounced, that if, by the
month of August neat, they did not retrace the course on
which they l;;(1 swaered, and if they did not consent to
ciisP.hey tin's law, then the Commission of the Assembly
was to take measures against them, and they sabre to he
deposed as a matter of course. Now, the only accusation
made against these gentlemelas avea by the acknowledg-
ment of their accusers., was, that they had not disobeyed
the law. Aq to tiseir conduct bud their characters, every
tiling we s tntwanePti°"..l:ie ; but unfortunately they had
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