The Sun.
London, England, 1840-03-10 00:00:00

EVEN'IIsCT

CHURCH QUESTION in SCOTLAND• PARLIAMENTARY DI JISION.

(From the Morning Advertiser.)
TO THE EDITOR.
Sta,—Mr.Home Drummond's address to the ele,tors
of Perthshire is of a piece with most other Tory pro-
fessions of faith, meaning little, and that little insin-
cerely. Tried by this test the utmost latitude might
pervade his votes in the House of Commons if he should
happen to be elected. But there is a point which be
will find some difficulty in evading, however artfully he
may endeavour to turn it. We allude to the question
of the General Assembly's Veto Act, as it is commonly
called, which has so strongly excited the public mind in
Scotland. Mr. Drummond announces in his address
that he is favourable to the popular side, but will not
pledge himself to any distinct avowal ; this Jesuitical
declaration, which would leave him free to vote for any
course the Tory party may eventually choose to adopt
with regard to this question, will not satisfy even his
owa adherents in Perthshire, many of whom, though
Tory in other respects, are likely to exact upon the
hustings a distinct pledge upon this point.
It is seldom that ecclesiastical quarrels are about sub-
jects favourable to civil liberty. The present division
in the Scottish Church is one, however, which may be
made eminently conducive towards the interests of re-
form, if correctly appropriated by the Liberal party, as
is evident from the alarm into which the Tories are
thrown concerning the effect it may produce upon the
election at issue. Essentially Protestant, the Presby-
terian Church is essentially democratic. Whatever
tends to violate its republican form is at variance with
its true character. In Scotland the religious feelings
of the people are enlisted on the side of civil liberty.
Thera, at least, the cause of the Church is the cause
of the people, whatever it may be in other countries,
and for that reason the Church is sacrificed by the Tories,
as she is upheld by them for contrary reasons in Eng-
land. Ministers, to carry all the county elections in
Scotland against the Tories, we arc persuaded,
onflict have
merely to i.dopt the popular side in the present c
of jurisdictions between the Church and the Courts of
Law. The case is briefly thus :
It is a fundamental doctrine of the Scottish Church,
that a majority composed of not less than three-fourths
of the congregation of a parish have the right to object to
the Clergyman presented to a living by a patron, pro-
vided they think fit ; and if their objections be sub-
stantiated by the Presbytery, the latter will refuse to
ordain the candidate, who cannot, until he receives
their permission, preach a single discourse in the
church to which he is so presented. This limitation
of the patron's rights was one which, although it may
have fallen into temporary abeyance, was co-existent
with that right—no prescription can be pleaded against
a constitutional right of this kind, according to the
maxim of law nullum tempus occurrit Regi. But here
occurred a difficulty. It was admitted that the
congregation possessed this right, but pleaded, on the
part of the patrons, that they were bound to
assign a specific objection to the Clergyman offered to
their approbation and that of the contending Presby-
tery ; of the validity of which specific objection the
Court of Session declared itself the judge. Acting
upon this view, they overruled the objection of the
congregation of a certain parish, and the decree of the
iPresbyter, rejecting the individual presented by the
patron, and upon appeal to the House of Lords their
decision was confirmed. The General Assembly, on
the other hand, denied the jurisdiction of the Law
Courts regarding their privileges, founding upon the
Act commonly called the Veto Act, which they had
passed declaratory of their rights.
Thus, when, the parishes where these questions have
originated are at present in the predicament of having a
clergyman appointed by the patron, and confirmed by a
Court of Law, who nevertheless does not preach under
pain of being " unfrocked," for want of the ordination
of his own Ecclesiastical Court. Neither can the Ge-
neral Assembly appoint any other Minister to preach in
these parishes, for want of the authority of the Court of
Session and of the patron.
An immense majority of the Church are in favour of
the Non-intrusion principle ; and the few who have so
far aided with the Court of Session as to obey its pre-
cepts, have been suspended by the General Assembly,
who decide that the veto being once granted to force
the congregation to assign specific reasons for object-
ing to a candidate, would be to defeat it altogether, it
being quite possible that the minister of a parish might
be inefficient, and yet exceedingly difficult to assign any
reason for his inefficiency, from the very nature of re-
ligious instruction itself ; also that it would be opening
the door to interminable actions for libel were it other-
wise.
Few questions have agitated the public mind in
Scotland so strongly as the present. The side of the
t congregations is espoused by the most eminent divines,
1 Dr. Chalmers among the number, and enthusiastically
supported by the great bulk of the people, whilst it has
been as bitterly opposed by the Tories both in and out
of the General Assembly, to whom this idea of subject-
, ing parsons to the approval of their flocks is as distaste-
' fal as the voluntary principle itself.
ilt might not be unadvisable in the present state of
matters for the Government to bring in a measure to
settle the right in dispute, affirming to the people of
Scotland the right of choice. The Perthshire election
I will be an index of the effect it has produced on the
1, popular mind ; an effect so deep, we are assured, as to
merge, for the moment, all distinctions of Whig and
Tory.
1 The course will probably be, that Ministers will
t bring in a Bill to this effect. The House of Lords
i will throw it out, and thereupon the people of Scotland
w.ll go mad.
I am, Sir, your most obedient servant,
London, March 6th, 1840. DUNS SCOTUS
1

MAJORITY—
Acland, T. D.—West Somerset
I'Court, Captain—Tamworth
Alsager, R.—Surrey
Atwood, W.—Greenwich
Bagge, W.—West Norfolk
Baillie, H. D.—Honiton
Baker, Edward—Wilton
Baring. F. T.—Portsmouth
Barrington, Lord—Berkshire
Berkeley, Hon. C.—Cheltenhtro
Bewes, T —Plymouth
Blackett, C.—South Northumber•

land
Blair, J.- Wigtonshire
Blake, Wm. J.—Newport, Isle df

Wight
Bolling, W.—Bolton
Bowes, John—South Durham
Broadley, Henry—East Yorkshire
Brocklehurst, J.—Macclesfield
Brodie, W. B.—Salisbury
Brownr;gg, J. S.—Boston
Bruges, W. H. L.—Bath
Burrell, Sir C.—Shoreham
Clay, William—Tower Hamlets
Clem, Sir G.—Stamford
Clive, R. H. _ South Shropshire
Collier, John—Plymouth
Copeland, W. T.—Stoke.upon
Trent
Corbally, Matthew Elias
Courtenay, P.—Bridgewater
Cripps, Joseph—Cirencester
Curry, William—Armagh
Darlington, Earl of—Shropshire
Davies, Colonel—Worcester
Denison, W. J.—West Sussex
Douglas, Sir C. E.—Warwick
Dowdeswell, W.—Tewkesbury
Dugdale, W. S.—Warwickshire
Duncombe, T. S --Finsbury
Dundas, Frederick—Orkney
Egerton, W. Tatton—Cheshire
Eliot,-Lird—East Cornwall '
Evans, William—North Derby
Farnham, E.B.—N. Leicestershire
Feilden, W. J.—Blackbnrn
Filmer, Sir E.—West Kent
Fitzalan, Lord—Arundel
Fitzroy, Hon. Henry—Lewes
Fremantle, Slr Thomas—Bucks
Glynne, Sir S. R.—Flintshire
Goddard, Ambrose—Cricklado
Gordon, Robert—Windsor
Gordon, Hon. W.—Aberdeenshire
Gore, 0. J. R.—Carnarvonshire
Goulburn, Right Hon. H.—Cam-
bridge University
Graham, Right Hon. Sir J. R. G
Bt.—Pembroke
Grey, Sir Charles Edward—Tyne-
mouth
Grimsditch, T.—Macclesfield
Grimstow, Viscount—Hertford-
shire
Grimston, Hon. E. 11.—St. Al-
ban's
Raiford, Henry—Leicestershire
Hamilton, Lord C.—Tyrone
Harcourt, G. S.—Bucks
Harcourt, G. 0, V —Oxfordshire
Harland, William C.—Durham
Hastie, Archibald—Paisley
iawkins, J. H.—Newport, Isle of
Wight
Heathcote, Sir W.—Hampshire
Hector, Cornthwaite John—Pe-
tersfield
Heneage, G. W.—Devizes
Henniker, Lord—East Suffolk
Herbert, Hon. S.—South Wilts
Herries, Rt. ROB. J. C.—Harwich)
Hodgson, Frederick—Barnstaple I
Hope, G. W.—Weymouth
Houldsworth, T.—Nottinghamsh.
Howard, Hon. E. G.—Morpeth
Howard, F. I.—Youghail
Howard, Sir It.—Wicklow Co.

T ELLE RS.

CIFIURCH-EXTENSION-CHURCII-
-- AND THE ECCLESIASTICAL
COURTS.

(From the Liverpool Mercury.)
A public meeting, convened by public placard and
advertisement, was held yesterday in the Music Hall,
Bold-street, to petition Parliament against any grant of
' the public money for the erection of additional Churches,
for the abolition of Church-rates and the Ecclesiastical
Courts, and for the release of John Thorogood and all
other persons imprisoned on account of Church-rates.
The placard invited the attendance of "all persons
friendly to the objects of the meeting." We mention
this in the outset, because an attempt, very discredit-
able to the persons with whom it originated, and very
disgraceful to the tools whom they employed, was made
to defeat the objects of the meeting ; or, at all events,
to prevent discussion by clamour and confusion.
After an attempt to disturb the meeting had failed,
which is said to have heen promoted by the followers
of Mr. M'Ncile, resolutions favourable to the object
for which the meeting was called were unanimously
agreed to, and a petition, of which the following is the
substance, was adopted :
That the petitioners strongly but respectfully deprecate
any Parlianientary grant or allowance for the building of
churches, as evidently unjust to those numerous bodice
of professing Christians who not only erect and maintain
their own places of worship, but likewise provide fdr their
own religious services, and who cannot, therefore! without
manifest wrong, be compelled to contribute to the exten-
sion of a form of worship from which they conscientiously

dissent.
That the petitioners protest against the compulsory sys.
,• tem of Church Rates, as founded on principles of gross
injustice, and against its further continuance, inasmuch as
the exaction of such rates is frequently productive of

scenes of discord and strife, alike dishonourable to re

g.on, and fatal to peace and Christian charity.
That the petitioners view the Ecclesiastical Courts as
engines of tyranny and oppression, disgraceful to the na-
tion and the age ; and they regard it as a striking proof of
the correctness of their views, that many upright and wor.
thy men, who conscientiously object to Church-rates, have
been recently subjected to cruel imprisonment by the au-
thority of these Courts, and that John Thorogood has been
confined in Chelmsford gaol, in consequence of his neglect-
ing to appear to a citation to show cause why he did not
pay the sum of five shillings and sixpence assessed upon
him as a Church-rate.
The petitioners therefore pray the Honourable House to
refuse any grant from the public Treasury for the build-
ing of Churches; and speedily to adopt such measures as
in its wisdom may be deemed best for the removal of the
national grievance of Church-rates—the abolition of the
criminal jurisdiction of Ecclesiastical Courts—and the in,.
1 mediate liberation of John Thorogood and all other persons
iclprisoned on account of Church-rates.

On Monday evening last, the house of Thomas
Lewis, gardener, of Fishpool, parish of Christchurch, took fire,
in consequence of sparks from the chimney falling on the
thatched roof, when the devouring element progressed with
such rapidity, and with such destructive effect, that Mrs. Lewis
and her four children, who were in bed, with difficulty escaped
with life from their burning tenement. The house, all the
little property, implements of gardening, clothes, &c., were
destroyed. Poor Lewis was making a few little purchases in
Bristol, when this misfortune took place.—Merlin.
•

The splendid vessel, the United States, the
largest ever built in the town of Liverpool, was launched there
last Saturday.

CHURCHMEN !—ln the night of Friday last,
some villains broke into Northwingfield Church. Their object
seems to have been to steal the communion plate, but they
were not able to force open the chest. Failing in this, they
took two surplices from the vestry, and a curtain from one of the
windows; they also cut away the fringe from the pulpit.
Derby Reporter.

Mr. Macready commenced an engagement of
five nights, last evening, at the Bristol Theatre, in the character
of 13acbetb ; Mr. Webster was the Macduff. Sir Edward
Bulvicsr's play of The Sea Captain, and Mr. Haines's success-
of Mary Stuart, will be produced during Mr.
ful tragedy
brief engagement.

The animal exhibition of the works of modern
gaanlledrieosthoerf
artists opened on Thursday at the Louvre, the
pictures
ss
they were
whieh were most densely thronged. Th
works of art are not quite so numerous this
last, but there are 6ome capital things among
Lord Robert Grosvenor's eldest son, .wh has
been seriously indisposed, is,
. we rejoice to say, convalescent.
CHARTISAI.—Luring the last week, two pikes
and twenty-six pike-shaqa have been found secreted in a dung
heap in Lidget-green, is the township of Horton. Many of
the shafts afford proof that there has been no time lost in
forcing the pikes away from their. handles or shafts, as they are
L'y the effort...—Raltfax Express.

lit and torn b:

!Frogs the rehss and Proceedings of the House .1 Command.)
TeVASPAY, MAIICH 5.
CAPITAL PUNISHMENTS.
Motion made and question put, " That leave be given to
bring in a Bill for the abolition of Cap:tal Punishments :".....
(Dr. Lushington :I—The House divided:—
MINORITY—AYES, 90.
Aglionby, H. A.—Cockermouth James, William—Cumberland
Aglionby, Major F.—Cumberland Jervis, S.—Bridport
Ainsworth, I'.—Bolton Kelly, Fitzroy—lpswich
stminster
Alston, Rowland—Hertfordshire !Leader, J. Temp
le
Archbold, Robert—Kildare lister, E. Cauliffe—Bradford
—We
Bainbridge, E. T.—Taunton Lushington, Charles—Ashburton
Baines, Edward—Leeds Ntelgund, Viscount —Hythe
Barnard, E. G.—Greenwich Milnes, R. Nl.—Pontefract
Barron ,
G.
W.—Waterford City Itfuntz, a F.—Birmingham ,
e.
Barn', 'G. S.—Cock Co. Muskett, George A.—St. Alban
Bolden), Henry G.— Cnippenham O'Connell, Daniel- Dublin
Brabazon, Sir William—Mayo Co. O'Connell, John—Athlone
Bridgeman, Hewitt—Ennis O'Connor Don—Roscommon Co.
Briscoe, J. I.—Westbury Paget, Frederick—Beaumaris
Brotherton, J.—Salford \ Pattison, James—London
Bulwer, Sir E. L.—Lincoln Pechell, Captain—Brightoner
Busfield, W.—Bradford Rice, Edward Royd— Dov
Rurelle,John—Tavistock Castlereagh, Visct—Down Co. Roche, William—Limt rick
‘.,Tve, Edward B.—Hereford
Craig, W. G.—Edinburghsh ir e salwey, Lieut.-Col.—Ludlow
Currie, Raikes—Northampton Sanford, E. A.—Somersetshire
Denistoun, J.—Glasgow Scholefield, J.—Birmingham
Divetz, Edward-1111:e. er Smith, J. A.—Chichester
Duke, Sir James—Boston Smith, Benjamin—Norwich
Easthope, J.—Leicestsr Stanley, W. Massey—Pontefract
Eliot, Hon. J. E.—Roxburghshire Stanley, W. o.—Anglesea
Ellis, Wynn—Leicester Stewart, James—Honiton
Fielden, John—Oldham Stock, Dr.—Cashel
Felton, John—Roehdalc Strickland, Sir G.—W• Yorkshire
Finch, Franc,s—Wal2all; Tancred, H. W.—Banbury
Fitzroy, Lard C.—Bury St- Elm. Thornely,Thos.—Wolverhampton
Fort, J.—Clitheroe Turner, Edmund—Truro
Fre.hfield, James Wm.—Penryn Turner, \V.—Blackburn
Greg, R. H.—Manchester Vigors, N. A.—Carlow Co.
Greig, Daaid—Perth Villiers, C. P.—Wolverhampton
Hall, Sir Benjamin—Nlarylehone Wall, C. Baring—Guildford
Hawes, B. -Lambeth Wallace, Robert—Greenock
.Kayter, W. G.—Wells Warburton, H.—Bridport
Hill, Lord A. H. C.—Evesham Ward, H. G.—Sheffield
Hinde, J. Hodgson—Newcastle- White, Andrew—Sunderland
upon-Tyne Williams, William—Coventry
Piindley, Charles--A..hton Wilmot, Sir J. E.—Warwickshire
Hobhouse, T. Benj.—Rochester Wood, Benjamtn—Southwark
Hodges, T L.—West Kent Yates, J. Ashton--Carlow
Hodgson, Rd.—Berwick-en-Tweed TELLERS.
Hume, Joseph—Kilkenny Ewart, William—Wigan
,E.Jo
J.
—petru;nhwark I.ushington, Rt. Hen. S—Tower
HiuuntchPhinesrY, Hamlets

-NOES, 161.
Howick, Viscount—Northumber.
land North
Hurt, Francis—South Derby
Hutton, Itobert—Dubun
Ingestre, Viscount—Staffordshire
Slrß. H.—Ox. University
Jones, John—Carmarthenshire
Kemble, H.—Fast Surrey
Knight, H. G.—Nottinghamshire
Lascelles, Hon. W. S.—Wakefield
Law, Hon. C. E.— Cambridge Uni v.
Lemon, Sir Chas.—W. Cornwall
Liddell, Hon. H.—North Durham
Loch, James—Kirkwall
Lockhart, A. M.—Lanarkshire
Macauley, T. B. Edinburgh
Mackenzie, Thomas—Ross-shire
M'Taggart, John—Wigton, &c.
Mahon, Viscount— Hertford
Martin, John—Tewkesbury
Maxwell, Henry—Cavan
Mildmay, P. St. John —Winches-
ter
Miles, Philip W. Skynner—Bristol
Mordaunt, Sir John—Warwicksh
Morpeth, Lord—Yorkshire
Morris, D.—Carmarthen
Neeld, Joseph—Chippenham
Nicholl, J.—Cardiff
O'Ferrall, R. M.—Kildare Co.
Ord, W.—Newcastle.upon.Tyne
Packe, C. W.—Leicester, South
Pakington, J. S.—Droitwich
Palmer, Robert—Berks
Palmer, George—Essex
Parnell, Sir H. Dundee
Peel, Col. Jonathan—Huntingdon
Pemberton, Thomas—Ripon
Pendarves, E. W.—W. Cornwall
Pinney, W.—Lyme Regis
Plumptre, John r.—East K'brit
Polhill, Frederick—Bedford
Powerscourt, Viscount—Bath
Praed, W. T.—St. lees
price, Richard—New Radnor
Protheroe, Edward—Halifax
Pusey, Philip—Berksblre
Rae, Right Hon. Sir Wm.—Bute
Richards, Richard—Merionethsh.
Bickford, W.—Aylesbury
Round, Charles Gray—Essex N.
Rushbrooke, Colonel—Suffolk
Rushout, Geo. Bowles—Evesham
Russell, Lord John—Stroud
Rutherfurd, Rt. Hon. A.—Leith
Sheppard, Thomas—Frame
Shirley, E. J.—Warwickshire
Smith, Abel—Hertfordshire
Smith, R. V.—Northampton
Smyth, Sir G. H.—Colchester
Somerset, Lord G.—Monmouthsh.
Spry, Sir S. T.—Bodmin
Stanley, Lord—North Lancashire
Stansfield, W. R. C.—Huddersfield
Staunton, Sir George Thomas
Strutt, Edward—Derby
Stuart, Lord J.—Ayr
Sturt, Henry Chasi—Dorsetshire
Style, Sir Charles—Scarborough
Sugden, Sir E.—Ripon
Surrey, Earl of—West Sussex
Sutton, J. H. T. M.—Cambridge:
Teignmouth, Lord—Marylebone
froubridge, Sir E. T.—Sandwich
Tyrrell, Sir J. T.—North Essex
Vere, Sir C. B.—East Suffolk
Vernon, G. H.—East Rettbrd
Wakley, Thomas—Finsbury
Williams, Robert—Dorchester
Wood, Charles—Halifax
Wood, Sir Matthew—London
Wood, T. J.—Middlesex
Worsley, Lord—Lincolnshire
Wyse, Thomas—Waterfore
. Young, John—Cavan Co.

iStanley, E. John—North Cheshire
Parker, John—Shetfield

TILE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.

BILLINGSGATE MARKET.
Supplies good, except Lobsters, with a brisk demand:
Turbot, 7s. to 213. ; Cud, 3s. to 12s. ; Soles, 9d. to 4s.
per pair ; Oysters, 245. to 60s. per bushel; Mackerel, 6d. to
Is. ; Salmon Trout, 2s. per lb. ; Salmon, 2s. 6d. per lb. ;
Whitings, 4d. to Bd. ; and Haddocks, Bd. to Is.
PROVISION MARKET.
A steady business in this market, and prices firm generally,
and for some commodities looking up. Prime Irish Bacon,
465. to 475., and Irish ButMter 795. to 955.
HAY ARKETS. .

Fair supplies, a goad demand, and prices much as before
Hay, 60s. to 90s. ; Clover, 80s. to 120 s. ; Straw, 365. to 44s
per load.

TALLOW MARKET.
This market was very quiet, and the price of P.Y.C. was
51s. 61 to 51s. 9d.

TEA MARKET.
A good business done, hut the prices did not transpire. The
Overland Mail is anxiously looked for.
COLONIAL MARKET.
The operations have been of the most trivial description.
B. P. Sugar sold slowly at the prices of Friday. A public
sale of 100 hhds. Barbadoes went at 50s. to 655., and rather
higher. West India Molasses at 325. to 355. for good quality.
There was a small parcel of damaged Brazil Coffee in the
market.

Lord and Lady George William Russell and
their suite have left Soutn-street for Berlin, via Brussels,
where his Lordship will resume his diplomatic duties as resi.

dent Minister.
The Lord Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol has
purchased Stapleton House, the late residence of Isaac Elton,
Esq., of the latter city, and we hear that he intends to convert
it into an Episcopal Palace.
Sir William Foulis, Bart., who for some time
past has been suffering from total blindness, is now in a fair
way of recovering his sight through the successful treatment of
Mr. Alexander, the eminent oculist. Sir William had both
eyes couched last week, the result being most successful.
CORN-LAW MEETING AT ROTHERHAM.—
Thursday a public meeting was held in the Town Hall, Ro-
therham, convened by Benjamin Badger, Esq., the Greave of
the Feoffees of the Common Lands in Rotherham. A peti-
tion to Parliament was adopted 's' to take into consideration the
propriety of petitioning the two Houses of Parliament for the
repeal of the existing Corn-laws, which we (the requisitionists)
consider to be unjust and injurious in their operation to the ma-
jority of the people of these kingdoms."
DREADFUL OCCURRENCE.—On Wednesday
a little boy named Simpson, about seven years of age, acciden-
tally fell before a cart, at the head of Constitution-street,
Leith ; the wheel went over his head and crushed it in the
most shocking manner. He only survived a few moments.
Mr Thesiger has issued an address to the Elec-
tors of Woodstock, soliciting their suffrages to become their
future representative in Parliament, in the room of the Mar-
epis of Blandford, called to the Peerage by the death of his
father, the late Duke of Marlborough.
The Duchess of Leeds coach was overturned on
Thursday evening week, near Wibsey Bank Foot ; but no one
was injured.—Halifax Ezp; ess.
On Sunday morning last, as a man named Henry
Price, a cabinet maker, was passing along Carden-street, in this
city, he suddenly dropped down, and the force of the fall caused
a fracture of the thigh. The man having been removed home,
Mr. Turley was called in, who found that amputation was ne-
cessary, which operation he skilfully performed in less than a
minute. It appears that the unfortunate man has had a bad
leg from infancy, caused in the first instance by cold, ultimately
resulting in decay of the bone.— Worcester Herald
d.
at the
ORANGE PROCESSIONS. --Ott Thursday
Cavan Assizes, thirteen Orangemen pleaded guilty to a charge
of walking in procession, on the 12th July last, at Ballyjames-
duff. Baron Foster sentenced thorn to one month's imprison.
ment each, and to pay fines of 40s. each to the Queen.
EXTRAORDINARY SKEW BRlDGE.—Work-
men are now actively engaged in the erection of one of the
n\fuost, perhaps the most, extraordinary iron viaducts connected
any railway, either finished or in the course of completion,
in Great Britain. The viaduct in question will cross Fairfield-
street, better known perhaps as Travis-street, Manchester, on
the Manchester and Birminham line of railway. The great
mass of
anythingsubstant masonrymialore against which the six ribs that
compose
the arch are intended to abut, is surprising to behold;
cannot be exhibited in theankhi
iron consumed in this mason, 111 r.
substantial,
andor wworkbie
bbreet Were executed,reflects infinite
credit on the master m
six ribs of the span of 128 viaduct
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inTaddhuei
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to
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comprised
efvdtehroyef
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remarkable for its acute an
the street being only 16 yards,
at all approaching to this, in the acuteness
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workstl been executed to
the plan and specification, that on fixing
te nctly
that
thea s.ljt'tosegmentjoints—i.e
segmentswas
foundofe tmh
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attioi ntl% last segm en tin
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foretightened.
In attempting,
that
however,two
the first rib, before referred to, at noon on the previous
was found to be fully 3-Bths of an inch too long, caused, as day' it
was afterwards proved, by expansion arising
from the heat of
it
the sun—for on the following morning early, and before the
sun's rays could have any decided effect on the iron, it was
found to fit its destined place with the utmost possible pre-
cision.— Liverpool Mercury.
CELIBACY STATUTR.—The petition to her
Majesty for the repeal of this statute has been forwarded this
evening, and seldom has the enlightened public given such
strong indication of their feeling in favour of any measure.
The petition in less than a fortnight has had upwards of 800
names attached to it ; of these between 200 and 300 are Cler-
gymen, nearly one-half of whom are beneficed; 90 Doctors,
in various departments, and about 170 Masters of Arts. The
remaining signatures are chiefly composed of Graduates of the
University, and members of the learned societies, and amongst
them we noticed some who either are, or have been, Members
of Parliament ; also Baronets, Queen's Counsel, and many of
the most influential gentlemen and Magistrates in the country.
—Dublin Evening Post.
There has been at Cork a miserable Orange
meeting to address the Queen on her mat riage.