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STEAM NAVIGATION TO INDIA
VIA THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

We are glad to be enabled to announce the arrival at
Calcutta of the Vernon East Indiaman. Our readers wil
recollect that she is a ship of the largest class of Indiamen,
1,000 tons, and is supplied with an engine of thirty.horse
power, as an auxiliary to her sails. Her voyage has been
unusually long, particularly so for so fine a ship, and one
that is considered the fastest sailer in the whole of Messrs.
Wigram and Green's splendid fleet of five and thirty In-
diamen. The Vernon, however, is one of twelve, thi
private property of Richard Green, Esq , to whose spirited
and enterprising exertions the commercial world and the
shipping interests arc likely at no distant period to be
deeply indebted for carrying into practical effect an
provenient in navigation that will obviate the tedious delay,
occasioned by calms and light winds in long voyages.
Of the causes of the delay the Vernon has experiencet.
we are very imperfectly informed at present. All we ea;
collect at present is from a postscript to a letter dated Cal-
cutta, January 19th, apparently written as the mail, whicl.
arrived on Tuesday last, was leaving. It states The
Vernon has at last made her appearance, and is now steam-
ing up at Kedgenee. The steam was of great use in cross
ing the Line on the 2d and 3d of January, until getting the
north-east monsoon, which they did on the bt h, beating up
all the way until they reached the head of the Bay, whet.
it fell a calm. They then steamed up to the Pilots. Thet
can steam four knots if there is no heed wind or swell."
This intelligence is extremely important, as it most iv-
controvertibly establishes the practicability of successfully
applying steam power as an auxiliary to sails, and will, no
doubt, lead to a new era in navigation.
We congratulate the spirited owner of this experimentai
ship and the country at large on the issue of the outward.
bound voyage ; the more so, as the accidents which hap.
pened to the machinery in the first part of the voyage had
rather cast a gloom upon the prospects of success. Thost
accidents were the breaking of a piston rod in the Downs;
the detention of the ship at Portsmouth, while another was
made, and a duplicate in case of need. One of they
broke while the Vernon was off Dartmouth, the other ii.
crossing the Line. So that, in fact, her steam was of Im
use to her until after she had left the Cape, where Captain
Denny, the able commander, had the good fortune to find
blacksmith, a Dutch boor, who, although he knew nothing
about steam-engines, yet, nevertheless, under the instructions
of Captain Denny, he contrived to make a wrought-Ir°,
piston that would not break, thus excelling in the manu-
facture of that important article in a steam-engine the
London engineer. The piston.rod of the blacksmith
succeeded well. The condensed steam in the horizontal
cylinder could not break it. The reason was obvious,—he
could nut temper it up to the freezing oribreaking point, the
condensed steam in the cylinder, an horizontal one, and
the rods, being too highly-tempered steel.
The voy.ige of the Vernon home will be one of great
interest ; and it is sincerely to be hoped that no mon
accidents will happen to her machinery. Great and im
portant improvements in the British navy may be antici-
pated from its successful termination.

POLITICAL SUMM RY OF THE
MORNING JOURNALS.

The Morning Herald of this day, discussing again the
hacknied privilege question, remarks as follows :
" Whether in their arrogance or their humility the privi-
lege-mongers are equally unjust. The Bill of Sum-
mary protection' grossly interferes with ' vested rights '
Suitors who have suffered wrongs from the House of Com-
mons have applied to the constitutioual tribunals of the
land for redress. The privilcge.mongcrs, who, in the
height of their original magnificent notions of their Oa:,
power disdained to share their omnipotence with the Cross is
arid the House of Lords, now condescend' to ask both
those despised branches of the Legislature for their assist-
ance to shut the gates qf the temple oljustice, in the faces
of the suitors, who knock at them for redress "—The lifor 71-
illy Advertiser thus expresses itself on the subject of the
Chinese question :—" Never was the reckless treason of
fiction more criminally manifested than it now is in refe-
rence to the measures in progress for the vindication of
Brit sh interests in China. Those who, for the last fen
years, while the danger was distant, were most vociferous
and virulent in the din of denunciation against Govern-
ment for not placing the navy in a state of greater effi-
ciency, arc now, n hen the necessity has actually arisen,
foremost in the attempt to excite discontent and clamour
on account of that expense which, when the circumstances
were less urgent, they alleged to be a matter of
c)mparative insignificance."—Tho Times, alluding to
a pamphlet by Archdeacon Wilberforce on the
Government plan of Education, says:_" Some glimmer-
ing of the real purposes of Ministers may be caught from
an escapade of Lord Lansdowne himself, the Chief Com-
missioner of Education, that pare-minded and exemplary
Nobleman having the modesty to avow his belief that Eng-
land is behind • France in general education I' Ay, my
Lord, it shows:with sufficient clearness on what sort of
education your thoughts have all along been running. A
smart. clever, depraved, abandoned, and godless race of
men would inhabit the polluted shores of Britain, were
the French and Lansdowne system of education to prosper
and propagate itself amongst our unhappy countrymen.'.—
The Morning Pose observes, in the course of a leading
article on Mr. Baines's First Fruits' Bill:—" If Mr.
Baines sees any need for Parliamentary interference re-
specting conventicles, and societies for the propagation of
dissent, by means of voluntary contributions, he is a very
proper man to bring the subject forward; but when he
meddles with Church matters, he must lay his account
with being very coolly and contemptuously treated by the
House of Commons and the public."

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COMMITTEE OF BANKING.—The fouown g
are the names of the members to be nominated to-day by the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, as the Committee on Banking :
The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir R. Peel, Mr Hume,
Mr. Labouchere, Mr. Guulburn, Mr. Mark Phillips, Mr.
O'Connell, Sir James Graham, Mr. Clay, Mr. Gisborne, Sir
John Rae Reid, Mr. Oswald, Mr. Charles Wood, Mr. Beck_
ford, Mr. John Parker, Mr. Patteson, Mr. Herries, Mr.
Ellice, Mr. Sergeant Jackson, Mr. Hector, Mr. Grote, Sir
Thomas Fremantle, Mr. J. A. Smith, Mr. Strutt, Mr
Matthias Attwood, Mr. Morrison.
SCICIDE.—On Tuesday morning, a person
named Wilson, formerly by business a writer, committed suicide
in Bell-street, by cutting his throat with a razor. He was hi
life when frst discovered, and taken to the Royali Infirmary
whcre he died shortly afterwards. It is believed that he was
n
in a state of derangement, arising from excessive • dn Igee '
ardent spirits.—Glasgow Argus.

IMPRESSMENT OF SEAMEN.

TO 71IE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
like truth, and will advocate its cause
to the best of my capacity all the days of my exist-
ence on the earth. I am not one of those officers
ho never speak or write anything about profes-
sional matters, but they revile and slander the
13:vird of Admiralty. I never did so, and I never
will do so, to the Present or any other Board. They
have all of them had their faults, and who are
without them ? But it is a very bad spirit of mind
to let political prejudice usurp the judgment, which
truth and candour alone ought to guide. The
great Duke said of the officers on his side of the
House, that they were on the wrong scent, and so
they were, for sails, spars, and spunyarn have no
scent at all : we can always obtain plenty of these,
,ripposing that we wanted them, " even in war."
But Rear-Admiral Carden, whose letter appears
in The Sun of the 9th instant—as well as yourself,
Mr. Editor—are on the right scent, with respect to
the Navy, and which right scent is, I think, on the
following :-1. Ships of equal force and capacity to
the ships of other nations ; 2. Active and zealous
officers; 3. Youthful and active seamen, without
any mixture of convicts and criminals.
1. The ships of equal force and superior sailing
to those of other nations, as far as possible, and
fully manned. 2. The officers active, zealous, and
talented ; and to be promoted without regard to po-
litical influence, whether of noble or plebeian ex-
traction ; and not to be felsely and maliciously
abused, as Admiral Fleming has been.
Mr. Editor, as an honest man, and a lover of your
country and of its gallant seamen, amongst
wnori; Admirat Fleming is one, let me beseech
you to read the minutes of Sir Robert Calder's
court-martial, and the signals made by his flag-
ship on the day of July 1805, when he met
the enemy•, with the minutes of the action,
on board the Hero, 74, and the log-book of the
Egyptienne frigate, which at onetime was the nearest
ship to the enemy, when her captain, Eiphinstone
Fleming, made the signal—" Shall I engage the ene-
my ?" (there were two ships of the line the nearest
to him.) The Admiral answered, " No." I could
state from my own observation, much more of Ad-
miral Fleming, were it necessary, which it is not.
3. The seamen. not to be impressed, but
registered by naval officers at all the ports,
and ballotted for every year, as the mlitia are, into
limited service, and which the seamen themselves
pray for, with the indulgence of furnishing substi-
tutes for all who cannot, from their commercial
occupations, be spared to serve personally in the
Navy, and wnich in fairness to the whole mass,
every man ought to do, when his turn of service
comes. But the conservatives of impressment
assert that registration is allowed on all hands to he
a total failure, though it has never vet been tried,
and never will be tried, if the advocates of im-
pressment are believed, who say registration is
only booking the sailors as swallows and other
birds of passage ; for the men will des,.rt and
change their names, and all of them lily away to
America, and abandon kindred and country, be-
cause a third, or a fourth, or a fifth, is ballotted for
every year, in case of emergency, to serve for five
years in the Navy, or find a substitute. There
would be little or no desertion, Jack would not
abandon his country, and he would seize every man
who skulked away from his turn of so equitable a
servitude. I may be wrong, but I think we have
four hundred thousand of seafaring men ; and at
no time are fifty thousand of them in foreign coun-
tries. 1 therefore believe we might, with great
facility, have a reserve of seventy thousand seamen
at home on our coasts, ready to join the ships of
war with hundreds of steamers to carry them, or to
burn an enemy's fleet on the coast with combustible
projectiles. We have all these securities in our
hands ; let us improve •hem for active service, and
foreign nations will never call upon John Bull to
show his title deed to rule the ocean, or his children
to sing their favourite song, " Britannia rules the
waves."

I am, Mr. Editor, a Son of the Sea,
13. BOWLING.

NON-INTRUSION PETITIONS.

The printed Votes inform us that the Edinburgh Non-
intrusion petition had 12,688 signatures. Now, when
we look to the efforts made, and the means employed to
get up this petition, we think, if it proves anything, it
proves the unpopularity of the cause. The whole party
clubbed their efforts to start the petition with an im-
mense flourish of trumpets. Then, instead of trusting
re the voluntary zeal of the inhabitants inducing them to
sign it at shops or other places publicly advertised, they
hawked it, we understand, begging for signatures. They
did net honour us with a call, and we cannot positively
state what sort of "solicitors" they employed ; but we
have no doubt that as usual they selected for this duty
elders or other important personages, well known in
their several districts—men handsomely attired, with
grave faces and powdered wigs, to whom three-fourths
of the persons waited upon would give their names
from mere politeness. We require no better evidence
of any scheme or object being unpopular than that men
will not take the trouble to step across the street to sign a
petition in its behaltbut must have their signatures begged
as a favour by influential persons. Of the 12,600 names,
we may safely hold that one-half were due exclusively to
personal solicitation, and we thus reduce the lumber of
names voluntary tendered to 6,300. Now, there were
31,300 males of twenty yeurs of age and upwards in
this city in 1831 ; and if we add an eighth part for
those between fourteen and twenty, the persons
capable of signing will be, in round numbers, 35,000.
What, then, has been the success of the Non-intru.
sionists ? Upon our hypothesis, which we hold to be
perfectly fair, only one out of five or six has signed
their petition spontaneously. We have yet other tests
to try the result. The petition against the Corn-laws
received 23,000 names, by the fair and legitimate method
of leaving it at shops, and inviting the inhabitants to
sign it by advertisement. Again, the last petition
from Edinburgh, for " the separation of Church and
State," had about 15,000 signatures, all got without
begging from door to door. What is the fair
inference ? Why, that whatever zeal there may
be to carry Non-intrusion, there is twice as much
to have the Kirk stripped of her endowment, and her
existence as an Establishment annihilated!! Govern-
ment may gratify a certain number of persons in Edin-
burgh by passing a Parliamentary veto law, but they
will gratify twice as many turning the Kirk adrift, and
leave her in full possession of the " independence" she
boasts so much about ; but which, as Milton says. "ill
consists with State hire!' The truth is, all this noise
about Non-intrusion proceeds from a small knot of agi-
tators, backed by a few honest zealots, but by a greater
number of parasites, busy bodies, and old wives. The
people of Edinburgh, taken in the mass, view the sub-
ject with indifference, and feel something like contempt
for those who are gulled into a belief that the present
struggle is for a great national object. The feeling in
other towns is apparently the same. Kilmarnock, with
20.000 inhabitants, affords 1,028 names ; Paisley, with
60,000 inhabitants, furnishes 4,684 ; " Dundee and its
neighbourhood," with perhaps 70,000 inhabitants, sup-
plies 7,009. In Glasgow they wisely avoided making a
display of their strength
; the petition from that town
bears the solitary signature of Henry Dunlop, and pro-
fesses to come from a meeting of " not less than 2,000
persons."—Scotsman.

COVENT GARDEN THEATRICAL FUND
FfiSTIVAL—Mr. Bartley, the Treasurer of this most excellent
fund. had the honour of an interview with his Royal Highness
the Duke of Cambridge, on Thursday last, for the purpose of
receiving directions from his Royal Highness with reference to
arrangements to be made for the celebration of the to enty-
fourth anniversary, at Freemason's Hall, on Wednesday next.
His Royal Highness, who (in the absmce of his illustrious
brother the Duke of Sussex) has kindly consented to preside
on the occasion, has taken a most lively interest in the affairs
of the fund and the forthcoming festival, and requested Mr.
Bartley (who is a most active functionary in the cause) to in-
timate to the stewards that dinner should be served punctually
at six o'clock, it being his Royal Highness's intention to be at
the tavern before that- hour, in order to secure the comfort of
the company. The secretary (Mr. Meadow s) reported on Satur-
day that he had been honoured with communications from many
illustrious and distinguished personages, patrons of the institu-
tion, who had fowarded most handome donations in support of
the fund. Mr. Charles Young, the ex-tragedian, though a
long distance from town, being one of the stewards, has deter-
mined to be present to aid his former colleagues in the duties
incident to his office. The musical arrangements have been
made upon a most extensive scale, and the festival altogether is
expected to be the most brilliant that has taken place for years
te
past ; certain it is that the members of the Committee. ee. the
stewards, and the professional ladies and gentlemen w_ h
volun-
teer their services gratuitously, are eminently entitled to sue-
cess, and to the deep and lasting gratitude of a large number
of actors and actresses, who, in'" by-gone day "have "strutted
and fretted their hour upon the siege", .j_l4; " da; ly -bread"
in. days,
iOUs pomp and
circumstance," but who now alas! denye the
through the medium of this' meritorious and benevolent
institution.
The Earl and Countess of
Clarendon had a
select party to dinner, on Thursday evening, in North Aut., ley.
street.

SlR—Your humane correspondent, " Medicus,'!
in a late number of your paper, expressed a hope
that no tax would be laid on salt; alleging how
essential this article is to the health, as well as to
the food of the poorer classes. I cordially -unite
with him in this kind and Christian feeling. I
cannot forget what I saw in Cornwall under the
former oppressive impost—viz., poor minep%, with
large families, sitting down to a meal of potatoes,
and using a little sea-water, from inability to Fur-
chase salt !
When it is considered that the fluid from which
table salt is manufactured in Droitwich and other
places is absolutely inexhaustible, is it not great
cruelty, by heavy taxation, to deprive the poor of
its general use ? Is it not an affront to Divine
beneficence to impede and circumscribe His tree
and liberal bestowments ? But the most serious
consequence of the former duty, in my view, was,
the numerous and constant perjuries it oecasicucd.
In order that sea-fishermen might have salt duty
free, for the cure of their own'fi,h, an oath was
required of them, declaring that this was the soi. '
object of their application. Deep distress, how.
ever, and want, arising from unsuccessful fishing
seasons, Esc., often induced them to exchange their
salt for flour, oatmeal, and other necessar.es.
not the criminality. attach chiefly to those who
" made the oaths,' for such a poor, but valuable,
body of our fellow -countrymen ?

J. L.

(Formerly a Missionary in Cornwall )
March 15, 1840.

JUSTICES' JUSTICE.

It appears from a case of Cave v. Mountain,
tried at Hertford, on the 28th ult. (see Hertford
County Press, Feb. 29, and the Norning Cliro
nide of the same day) to be thy practice fot Country
Magistrates to commit in all cases (even on a mere
charge of suspicion without any evidence) for fur-
ther examination to the next Petty Sessions, which
may not be held for a week or a fortnight. Thus
a man is charged with an offence—the prosecutor
knows nothing against the prisoner, except hearsay;
his witness is not in attendance, but can be got, in
a few hours, the Magistrate without hearing a
tittle of evidence, commits the party charged to the
next Petty Sessions, instead of making some in-
quiry beforehand. Under this infamous practice
no one is safe—hundreds of innocent men may he
imprisoned for a week, or more. before the least in
quirt' is made into their cases. The Magistrate
receives the charge, but does not choose to take
the trouble of making an appointment to hear the
evidence.
In the case in question a man went before a Ma-
gistrate (the Rev. Mr. Mountain, of Hempsted)
and said he had heard two boys say, that they had
heard N. Cave say that he had cut some trees be-
longing to Mr. Butt, upon which the Rev. Gentle

man, without any inquiry, makes out a warrant of
commitment for a week, at the end of which peried
the charge is found to be false and the prisoner is
discharoed. Why was not the supposed witness
examined before ? Ou.,;,ht any time to have been
lost in ascertaining whether them was any evidence
against the prisoner?
Well, an action is brought against the Magis
trate, and a Special Jury, composed in a greet mea
sure of Magistrates, is got by the defendant to try
the case. They, of course, decide that what had
been done was quite reasonable—it was the prac-
tice, forsooth !

The Judge (Lord Abinger) instead of deciding, as
he ought to have done, that in point of law the prac-
tice %vas illegal, did not express the least disappro-
bation of it ; but, on the contrary, thought it was
quite right, and this iniquitous system bids fair to
become universal.

Should not the Home Secretary interfere, and put
a stop to such a practice as this ? Surely, if a
Magistrate be competent to commit a man for a
week, he ought to be competent to first take some-
thing in the shape of evidence ? The defence of
the practice is, that a Magistrate does not like to
act singly, and so he is to be allowed to begin the
business by committing for a week.
The Morning Chronicle of the 12th March,
devoted a leading article to this case, but sufficient
importance is not attached to the existence of the
practice of remanding in all cases to the next Petty
Sessions,—a practice which shows more than any
thing else the absolute necessity of having a com-
petent Magistracy in lieu of the " great unpaid."
The law as to remanding as stated in the nooks
is quite opposed to Lord Abinger's opinion, for it
is laid down as an inflexible rule, that no time must
be lost in the preliminary inquiry. In fact, in
many places the Magistrate takes a deposition of
the prosecutor, that a given time is necessary for
him to be able to produce the witnesses, and the
commitment is not beyond that time.
In this same case of Cave v. Mountain, the
gaoler, stated, that the prisoner was kept in solitary
confinement on bread and water, according to the
regulations of the gaol, which regulations are made
by the Magistrates. So that no difference is made
between a convicted felon and a person against
whom there is as yet no evidence !

OFFICIAL GENERAL RETURN OF
EMIGRATION FOR 1839.

By publishing this Return, which has this week been
made to the House of Commons, we are persuaded tve
shall impart instruction and gratification to our readers.
Sixty-two thousand, two hundred and seven emi•
grants have embarked from the various ports of the
United Kingdom during the year 1839. Of these emi-
grants have proceeded to the North American coloniez
twelve thousand, six hundred and fifty-eight ; to the
United States, thirty-three thousand, five hundred and
thirty-six ; to the Cape of Good Hope, two hundred and
twenty-seven ; to Western Australia and 'Swan River,
two hundred and sixty-eight ; to South Australia, fear
thousand, eight hundred and fifty-six ; to Van Diernee's
Land, three hundred and twenty-eight ;to Port Phillip,
one thousand,, one hundred and sixty-one ; and to Syd-
ney, eight thousand, tour hundred and fifty-five ; making
a total to the Australian colonies of fifteen thcusdod,
seven hundred and eighty six.
The following is a classification of this emigration,
according to the three great divisions of the British
empire. From Engl nd have gone to the North Ame.
rican colonies two thousand, two hundred and fifty-
one ; to the United States, thirty thousand, one hundred
and forty-two ; to the Cape of Good Hope, two hue-
dred and twenty-one ; to the Australian colonies, eleven
thousand, eight hundred and forty-five ; making a total
of emigrants from England of forty-four thousand, four
hundred and fifty-nine. From Scotland have gone to
the North American colonies one thousand, four hun-
dred and eighteen ; to the United States, five hundred
and fifty-one ; to the Cape of Good Hope, six ; to the
Australian colonies, two thousand, two hundred and
thirty-eight ; making a total of emigrants from Scot-
land of four thousand, two hundred and thirteen. From
Ireland have gone to the North American colonies,
eight thousand, nine hundred and eighty-nine ; to the
United States, two thousand, eight hundred and forte.
three ; to the Cape of Good Hope, nine ; to the Ans•
tralian colonies, one thousand, seven hundred and three;
making a total of emigrants from Ireland of thirteen
thousand, five hundred, and thirty-five. This return is dated Feb. 27, 1840.—South Australian Record. I

THE LALLA ROOKH.--On Thursday last
an el tertainment was given on board the fine new ship Lalla
Rookh, in the London docks, by the proprietor Mr. M'Cut-
chtn, to a large party of gentlemen, on the eve of her depar-
ture on her first voyage. This beautiful vessel is intended
for the Australian trade, and is bound for Port Adelaide. She
is 372 tons buethen, new measurement, and fitted up in the
most commodious and elegant style for passengers; and some
lidea of her accommodation may be formed from the fact that
no less than fifty persons sat down on this occasion in the
cuddy and state cabins adjoining, with perfect ease and com-
' fort. The entertainment was exceedingly sumptuous, and in
admirable taste, with a profusion of the finest wines, which
I were quaffed in abundance wishing success to the vessel au:l
her owners. The vocal abilities of Mr. Morgan and Mr.
Willing added considerably to the hi'arity of the e%ening. The
song of the " Coronation," written by Thomas Ingoldsby, Esq.,
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her gallant appearance and beautiful symmetry.
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The Jesuits of Stonyhurst College, in tl e coun.“c
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vrersity. We are happy to If axe that her Majesty has been gra-
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dated Fcb. 4, IS 40.

Lord JOHN RUSSELL said on Friday in the
liii‘otrse of Commons that the actions brought by Mr.
STOCKDALE were only parts of a scheme to gain
money and notoriety. • The object and intention
is to use the Courts and the law to achieve a
fraud, and false assertions, as we stated, when we
quoted the Declaration, are the bases of the extortion
The Law, and the Judges, then, have lent them-. i
Selves to consummate a fraud based on an impudent
lie. Such, nakedly exposed, is the true nature of a
transaction which many independent persons have
represented as identical with a struggle for liberty,
and as involving a defence of popular rights.
Respectable and clever men, whose motives are
above suspicion, who have been distinguished
through a long life for their patriotic exertions, have
been taken in by the specious representations, and
have bawled in Common Council and at Common
Hells for Mr. STOCKDALE and the law. What An article from our northern Contemporary, the
will they, what can they say, when they find this Scotsman, inserted in another part of our Paper,
man bringing his fifth action for the same libel, throws a little light on the state of feeline•t, in Scot-
and laying, because he knows that the House land, with respect to the Non-intrusion imposture.
of Commons will order Messrs. HANSARD not The petition to Parliament from Edinburgh, got
to defend the action, the damage done to his cha- up by the Non-intrusionists, was, it seems, hawked
ratter and trade at fifty thousand pounds-? If this about from house to house, by persons possessing
do not open the eyes of our City patriots, and influence of one kind or other in the different di:-
• make them regard this Mr. STOCKDALE S pro. tricts of the Scottish metropolis. Begging agitators
'
ceedings as merely extortion by means of law, of went round to rouse the latent zeal of the public on
which they ought to be ashamed, they must be the subject of " independence." And what, after
wilfully blind. Perhaps, too, this fifth action, and all this management and manoeuvring, is the result ?
the lying Declaration, may make—we are sure it .1::st 12,600 signatures, good, bad, and indifferent,
ought to make—the editors of those aout of a population bordering on 200,0001 The
hitherto upheld Mr. STOCKDALE pand the law Scotsman assumes, and with perfect fairness, that
ashamed of their advocacy. Will they continue to had the usual practice been resorted to in
defend this barefaced lying legal extortion, and con- this case, of leaving copies of the petition at
tinue to affirm that the liberties and rights' of Eni,- varicus places for those to sign who, of them-
iishmeni will be endangered if Mr. STOCKDALE f selves, felt so disposed, it would have been
be not allowed to use the forms of the Courts
and shorn of half its names. When, therefore, we
cruel fictions of the law to extort money from also take into consideration the facts that the
the public ?
petition against the Corn-laws received 23,000, and
Such being the true nature of the transaction as the petition- for the separation of Church and State
now exposed, we must affirm that the conduct of 1‘.5,00 signatures,
the House of Commons has been quite as bad as dupery without any solicitationiit
see
r
having
that of the Judges. It has seen the fraud, it has that even in Edinburgh, the very hot-bed of "Non-
been sensible of the lie; it has repudiated both for intrusion " been employed, we cannot
, where almost all the popular clergy, as
itself,. but it has left the rest of the community ex-
they style themselves, are bitten with that mania,
,* . .