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own fault. We could point out many physical force
Chartists in the large boroughs who sold their votes
at the last election for Tory gold. We know of
hundreds who were placed on the register by
the exertions of the Anti Corn-law League, in the
metropolitan boroughs, who hawked their franchise
to the highest bidders, and at last knocked them-
selves down to the monopolist candidates. It is
time that all this tomfoolery were put a stop to. Let
the L-ish, who are maintained in England, beware how
they abuse our hospitality, by putting into execution any
attempts to create a disturbance among us, as the sym-
pathisers of the Mitchell conspiracy. If they once
stimulate the national animosities of John Bull,
and the prejudices of the Scotch, they may •
be the first to repent the retaliation their
ruffian bluster may provoke. Meanwhile, it is time
for the well-affected to be up and doing. The best way
to suppress disorder is to prove that it cannot succeed.
It the Government is paralysed, that is no reason
why the people should be unprepared to suppress
violence, or to concert measures to meet any ernes.-
gency which may result from the state of Ireland.
The cause of order is the cause of liberty. Tyrants
and thieves alone thrive by confusion. The progress
of popular power is founded on knowledge, and the
best fruit of knowledge is peace. It is kings and
autocrats %%hose trust is in the bayonet, and whose only
faith is in the rifle and parks of artillery. Let the people
show they are worthy to be free, by practising the vir-
tues of freemen—by a reliance on the power of reason,
on the march of intelligence, on the force of public
opinion, on the justice of their cause, and the certain
triumph of truth and right, naked and unarmed,
except in the panoply of virtue, and the majestic
spirit of humanity. Let them look upon the
moral miracle which Lamartine is working and be
ashamed at their own scepticism of the efficacy of
moral forces. And let our middle-classes and rulers
redeem this stirring time, and by timely reform avert a
merited revolution. Not an hour should be lost in pro-
posing to Parliament the more necessary and pressing of
many wholesome measures, which may relieve industry,
and promote popular contentment. Let them mingle
conciliation with firmness, and concede redress while
they enforce authority. While all Europe reformingorpfeisEnglandto
itself, or being reformed, it will not do
lag behind.— Weekly Dispatch.

ALLEGED CASE OF ABDUCTION.
On Friday, at the Marylebone. Police-court, just
before the usual period for the closing of the
court (the greater part of the day having been
devoted to the swearing in of special constables),
Mr. Thomas Buxton Barnes, surgeon, of Thaxted,
Essex, was brought up by Inspector Tedman, of
the I) division, upon a warrant before Mr. Broughton,
charged on the oath of the Rev. Thomas Harvey with
having, on the Ist of April instant, at the parish of Pad-
dington, in the county of Middlesex, unlawfully taken
an unmarried girl, to wit, Marion Frankes Jane Harvey,
she being under the age of 16 years, out of the posses-
sion of, and against the will of him, the said Thomas
Harvey, her father.
The complainant is the person who has made repeated
appeals to the public with regard to the conduct of the
Bishop of London in removing him, as he alleges, in a
most cruel and unjust manner from a chaplaincy which
he enjoyed at Antwerp, and thereby leaving him and
his family in a state almost amounting to destitution. A
complete history of the affair has been submitted to the
public through the medium of a pamphlet, sad it will be
remembered that several of the diurnal, as well as the
weekly papers, took up the case warmly in favour of Mr.
Harvey. The proceedings against defendant were insti-
tuted under 9th Geo. IV., cap. 31.
Mr. Wilkin, solicitor, Furnival's Inn, attended for
Mr. Barnes, who appeared to be upwards of forty years
of age.
Inspector Tedman, in reply to a question from Mr.
Broughton, said that the Rev. Mr. Harvey was unable,
from illness, to come to the court. The young lady, his
daughter, was not present, but her mother was.
Mrs. Harvey, who seemed greatly affected, and who
was accompanied. by a female friend, was led along sob-
bing audibly, and she was accommodated with a seat
near the magistrate.
Sh 3 was then sworn, and deposed as follows : —My
husband was taken ill this morning, and that is the rea-
son why he is not here. He is a clergyman of the
Church of England, and he resides at No. 30,
Queen's-terrace, Bayswater. My husband had a curacy
at Thaxted, Essex, and we left there the 14th of last
month. I have one girl (Mrs. Harvey here became
completely overwhelmed with grief, but in a short time
she was able to proceed); that dear girl was fifteen on
the Bth of last month. I have also two boys. While
we were living at Thaxted, which was about a year and
a half, defendant was the medical attendant of our
family.
Mr. BROVGRTON—Has your daughter had any par-
ticular illness which required his attendance ? Mrs.
Harvey—Yes, in February ; and he had her then under
medical treatment.

Mr. BROUGHTON—WhiIe thus attending her, did you
observe any improper conduct on his part towards her ?
Mrs. Harvey—No, sir. He expressed great regret
upon our leaving the country to come to town.
Mr. BROUGHTON—IA your daughter entitled to any
fortune by settlement or otherwise ? Mrs. Harvey—
At our death, sir, she will be possessed of 3,0001.
Mr. BROUGEITON—When did you miss your daughter?
Mrs. Harvey—On Saturday morning last, at about
half-past seven o'clock. The defendant had dined
with us the day before. At the time I have mentioned,
I was awoke by my servant, who asked me where Miss
Fanny was? Her father (my husband) jumped out of
bed, and proceeded to my daughter's room, which he
found vacant. He discovered two letters therein, one
of which, written by his daughter, alluded to her having
gone off with Barnes, and the other was in the handwrit-
ing of Barnes himself, in which he admitted that he had
broken the laws of hospitality, and must be held amenable
for what he had done. He further alleged in the said
epistle that perhaps something more might be heard of
them that night. They were gone to Bristol, and pursuit
would be quite useless. Fanny had gone willingly with
him, and he had used no compulsion at all.
Mr. BftouawroN—Have you seen your daughter
since ? Mrs. Harvey—She is now, sir, thank God, with
us; she was brought back by her father on Tuesday
morning.

Inspector Tedman, D division, said I saw the Re-
verend Mr. Harvey here last Monday, when he made
known the particulars of his daughter's abduction.
He (Mr. Harvey) seemed greatly excited, owing
to his loss. In addition to myself and the
Reverend Mr. Harvey, were two other persons
Mr. Anderson and Mr. Lee, and we all went down to

the defendant's house. Defendant refused to restore the
young lady. After a severe struggle they gained an
entrance into the house, and succeeded in extricating
the young lady, who at the time was in bed, and she was
brought up to town. A pistol was, as alleged, found close
to her pillow.
Mr. WILKIN cross-examined the inspector, but did not
elicit any thing tending to shake his testimony.
The answer made by • the defendant's solicitor to
the charge was, that there was no taking away of the
girl in an unlawful manner. They had kept up a cor-
respondence together, and, he had, as he should be
able to prove, on a future occasion married her with
her own free will and consent. The Learned Gen-
tleman cited several cases, which he considered had
a bearing upon the particular case in favour of his
client; and said that letters which had passed between
the parties, and which would be forthcoming upon
another day, would put a different complexion en-

tirely upon the affair. -
Mr. BROUGHTON, after making many observations
upon the evidence which had been adduced, and upon
the defence set up by the solicitor, came to the con-
clusion that he had no other duty to perform than
that of holding the defendant to bail, himself in
2001., and two sureties in 1001. each, for his
being forthcoming on Wednesday next, upon
which day letters which have passed between the parties
will, no doubt, be brought forward and read in court.
The Rev. Mr. Harvey will, from the opinion of a medical
gentleman, be sufficiently
namel. recovered to appear on the day

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THE GOVERNMENT SURVEY OF LONDON.—MEET-
ING OF Cum. SURVEYORS.—On Saturday a meeting of
the civil surveyors of London, and of some from the
provinces, was held at the Freemasons' Tavern, Great
queen-street, their chief objects being to obtain employ-
ment in lieu of the Ordnance surveyors in the incipient
survey of London, and in other surveys contemplated
by Government, and to form a permanent association.
Mr. Herbert Baker was voted to the chair. The speakers
spoke of the distress likely to be entailed on a large
class of highly and expensively educated individuals it
the national surveys should be confined to the employes
of the Ordnance. They maintained that those surveys
peculiarly belonged to civilians, who were better cal-
culated to make them accurately, with expedition, and,
on the whole, more economically than military sur-
veyors. Instances were adduced of the incompetence of
the latter. It was agreed that an association should be
formed, united and governed by precise rules and regu-
tihsetonbaetiopnrea.l
lations, and ready to undertake, giving sufficient guaran-
teessur y
surveys
s that Government,m imight
b et the
ordered.execution.
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Government
sented to
left open to amongst civil
Parliament, praying that the
competitionG
survey
BlLL.—According to this Bill, the
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survey
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are committed to the cus-
tody Actonly.—
is not a general one, but local and
gentlemen. 'The
I board being the sole arbiters as re-
gards and keeping of a metropolitan central Board of five
partial, the central
constitution of the local committees is
operation. The l
and
I pleasure of the great five.
left to the arbitrary will
of voting for the local boards,
gards the towns and places where it shall be put in
They determine the mode
The persons composingt
metal for any exer-
ciseot cast these boards might be made .
is expected of them.
the number of members to be appointed to each, and the
expenses to be allowed them.
of volition or discretion that
and sala-
riesap-
of these officers, except under the sanction
their officers
They cannot appoint their own officers, or fix the
proval of the central five. Neither they nor
can undertake any work whatever, unless with the_ pre-
vious express and formal consent of the central board,
without whose ordonnance it would seem, indeed, that
not a hammer can be raised or a pick plied.—Liverpool
Mercury.
SCIENTIVIO PRESENTS .—A package of books has
been forwarded by the Royal Society of Arts and Science
at Amsterdam to his Excellency the Count Schimmel-
penainck, the Netherlands Minister at this Court, for
the purpose of presentation to the Royal Philosophical
Societies of Londoa and Cambridge, and other learned
institutions in England, and they will be delivered, with
the sanction of the authorities, free of duty to the several
institutions to which they are directed.
The steam-packets employed running between
Pembroke and Waterford, are each ordered to be sup-
plied with a guard of loyal Marines,