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London, England, 1834-04-19 00:00:00

PRIESTS.

Francis Du Boulay, 8.A., Clare Hall, Cambridge;
John Daniel, 8.A., St. John's College, Cambridge ;
Richard Peter Warren, 8.A., Exeter College, Oxford;
Charles Thomas Carpenter, 8.A., Sidney Sussex Col-
lege, Cambridge ; William Borlase, 8.A., St. Peter's
College, Cambridge ; Edward John Wilcocks, 8.A., Lin-
coln College, Oxford; Henry Sweeting, M.A. Queen's
College, Oxford ; William James Havart, 8.A., St.
John's ,ollege, Cambridge ; Edm. Ashton Dicken, 8.A.,
Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge ; James W. Campbell,
8.A., Trinity College, Cambridge ; Thomas Charles
Garlike, 8.A., Clare Hall, Cambridge ; Henry M'ln-
tosh Chrichlow, B. A., Trinity Corlege, Cambridge ;
John Carlyon, 8.A., Pembroke Hall, Cambridge ; John
A. Herring Laffer, 8.A., Christ's College, Cambridge ;
Alexander Allen Vawdrey, 8.A., St. John's College,
Cambridge.
The Lord Bishop of Gloucester has licensed the Rev.
Thomas Parry to the Perpetual Curacy of Baunton, void
by the cession of the Rev. L. Latham, on the nomination
of Miss Master, of the Abbey, Cirencester.
The Rev. Edward Howells, M.A., has been appointed
Succentor of Hereford Cathedral, void by the resignation
of the Rev. Wm. Cooke, M.A.—The Rev. Charles
Taylor, M.A., Head Master of the Cathedral School,
has been presented to the Rectory of Moreton-un-Lugg,
void by the death of the Rev. y. Woodcock, M. A.

The Rev. W. L. Nichols, M.A., has been licensed by
the Bishop of Bath and Wells to the curacy of at. James's,
Bath.

The Rev. C. V. H. Sumner, Rector of Farnborough,
has been presented to the Rectory of Byfleet, Surrey:
The Rev. J. P. Higman, M.A., Fellow and Tutor
of Trinity College, Cambridge, bits been presented by the
Master and Fellows of that Society, to the Rectory of
Fakenham, Norfolk, vacant by the death of the Rev. Mr.
Norris.

The Rev. G. A. Butterton, Fellow of St. John's Col-
lege, Cambridge, and Vice-principal of Bristol College,
has been elected Head Master of the West Riding Pro-
prietary School, Wakefield, Yorkshire.
The Dean and Chapter of Canterbury have presented
the Rev. John James Cory, 8.D., to the Vicarage of
Aylesham, in Norfolk, void by the death of the Rev.
Charles Norris, the late Vicar.

The late Marchioness of Hertford, who
died on Saturday, -at her residence in Manchester-
square, was the eldest daughter and co-heiress of
Charles, ninth Viscount Irvine, of Scotland (which
title became extinct upon his death, June 27, 1778),
and sister to the Lady of Sir John Ramsden, Bart.,
and the late Mrs. Meynell. Her Ladyship was united
to the late Marquis of Hertford when Viscount Beau-
champ, May 20, 1776; and by his Lordship, whom she
survived 12 years, she had an only child, the present
Marquis. The Marchioness was for the long period;
of half a century a distinguished member of the beau
monde; and at her house, in Manchester-square, every
season gave recherche banquets, chiefly to the high!
Tory Peers and their ladies. She has died possessed
of vast wealth, the bulk of which will go to the Rams- !
den family.

Sir Robert and Lady Peel gave a grand en-
tertainment on Monday evening, at their residence in
Privy Gardens, to the Earl of Aberdeen, Earl and
Countess de Grey, Lord Fitzgerald and Vesey, Vis-
count Norreys, Bishop of Exeter, Sir Robert Gordon,
Lord Allen, Sir Lowry and Lady Frances Cole, Mr.
Goulburn, Colonel Seymour, Sir Alexander Grant,
Mrs. Dawson, Mrs. H. Baring, and Mr. Cockburn.
Her ladyship also gave a select evening party, at which
were present the Lord Justice Cleric of Scotland,

i.)rd Ernest Brtt,', Sii• and E. Hardinge, Mr.
1 .erries, Sir Hugh Car- y the Dean of York, and
Cockburn, Sir John and Miss Bercsford, Hon.
Sidney Herbert, &c.

The will and codicils of the late Mr. Adair,
of Pall-mall, line just been proved in the Prerogative
Court of Canterbury, by his • executors, Sir T. Bar-
ing, Mr. A. Baring, and Sir F. A. Roe. The per-
sonal property is sworn under 700,0001. The will,
which is dated July 9, 1831, leaves various legacies
t) his friends and relations-1,0001. to the Countess
_thlone ; 10,000/. to W. T. Roe, Esq., nephew of
his late wife ; 1,0001., and an annuity of 2001., to his
c!erk, Mr. king; and various legacies to his domes-
tics. The residue of the personal effects is given to
Sir T. Baring, Mr. A. Baring, and Sir F. A Roe,
in equal proportiors ; and the share of each will amount
to considerably more than 100,000/. The real estates
:.re given in trust for the children of Sir F. Roe.

The fine remark of John Kemble on the
acting of Kean, "he is terriblii in earnest," may be
well applied to the author of " Makanna." The cha-
racters and scenes of this spirit-stirring romance teem
with bold and glowing creations; but, while full of
power, they equally abound with soul-thrilling touches
of human sympathy, and, as the dramatis persona
arise around us full of life and emotion, we actually
feel as if involved in the destiny that awaits them. To
that high excitement, suited to the times in which we
live, this work unites sterling qualities which will ren-
der it a lasting favourite.

MEETING OF MIDDLESEX MAGISTRATES.
Wednesday there was a full meeting at the Sessions_
house of the magistrates of this county, B. Rotel',
Esq., M. P., in the chair. Several matters were sub-
mittd to discussion, such as the removal of the Scotch
and Irish paupers, the Lord Chancellor's Criminal Bill,
the county prisons, the Poor Laws, the Chairman's
salary, but nothing of especial interest worthy of de-
tailed report, was elicited. It was decided, byfr to
10, that the Chairman's Salary Bill should - tot be
proceeded with.

LONDON UNIVERSITY.-A museum, con-
sisting of many valuable specimens and preparations of
morbid anatomy, midwifery, and casts, with numerous
prints and drawings, has been presented to this Uni-
versity, for the use of the students of the new North
London Hospital, which will be opened at Michaelmas
with 110 beds, by Gore Clough, Esq., of Upper Nor-
ton-street, Fitzroy-square. The preparations are for
the most part in excellent preservation, and have been
carefully collected at an expenditure of nearly 3,0001.
The gift of this valuable addition to the museum of the
University was communicated on Wednesday last to
the committee, and it will be deposited in a temporary
apartment till the large room about to be fitted up is
ready for its reception.
ROYAL DISPENSARY FOR DISEASES OF
THE EAR.—The anniversary festival of this institu-
tion was held on Wednesday, at the Thatched House
Tavern, St. James's, the Earl of Hirewood in the
chair, supported by Earl Tanker\ ille and Lord Lang-
ford, each of whom spoke eloquently in favour of the
charity. After the usual loyal toasts, the noble chair-
man, on proposing the health of Mr. Curtis, the sur-
geon and founder of the institution, presented that
gentleman with a handsome gold medal, of the value
of twenty guineas, manufactured by Rundell and
Bridge, which had been voted to him at the last meet-
ing, by the governors and subscribers, in testimony of
the high sense they entertained of his humane treat-
ment of, and assiduous attention to, the patients un-
der his care. Among the subscriptions announced,
including those of the noblemen and gentlemen pre-
sent, we noticed the Queen, the King of the Belgians,
Lord Redesdale, Lord Lincoln, Lord Besborough,
Dr. Tattersall, &c. &c.

PARISH OF ST. GEORGE, HA.NOVER-
SQUARE.—A meeting of the rate-payers of this parish
held on Wednesday at the manufactory in the Work-
house, Mount-street ; the Right Hon. Earl Amherst
took the chair. On the platform beside the noble
chairman we observed the Earl of Harewood, the Earl
of Haddington, the Earl of Roseberry, the Earl of Dar-
lington, Sir John Cam Hobhouse; Bart., Sir John
Swinburne, Bart., Sir Wm. Fremantle, Bart., the
Hon. R. Clive, M. P., Sir Stratford Canning, Gen.
Gascoyne, T. B. Fuller, Esq., R. H. S. Bourne,
Esq., Thomas Duncombe, Esq., Colonel Frederick,
and several other highly respectable individuals. By
the provisions of the new Vestry Act, a portion of the
vestrymen retire from office annually, and it is there-
fore incumbent on the rate-payers carefully to fill up
the vacancies. The meeting was called for the pur-
pose of promoting this desirable object by the adop-
tion of such preliminary measures as might appear
best calculated to insure, at the election in May next,
the return of well-qualified vestrymen and auditors of
accounts. After resolutions to this effect had been
proposed, the meeting broke up.

JOSEPH BONAPA RTE.—A splendid col-
lection of valuables, the property of this celebrated
individual, Kill be exhibited at the Egyptian Hall,
Piccadilly, consisting of rich and elegant furniture,
splendid and curious cabinets, ornamented with gems
of the most costly description, superb vases, and
articles of vertu ; selected from almost every court in
Europe, at an expense of one hundred thousand
pounds. It was the intention of Joseph Bonaparte
to have built a house for his residence in England,
and these rare specimens of art were to have adorned
it ; this intention being abandoned, the whole of them
are to be submitted for the purpose of sale, and we do
not think a more appropriate place could have been
selected for such a purpose, than the establishment
belonging to those useful and industrious mechanics
forming the Cabinet-makers' Society, who deserve
every encouragement the public can give them. The
Egyptian Hall forms at present the most fashionable
lounge in the metropolis, there being arranged in the
various departments the greatest stock of furniture in
the world, calculated for furnishing the palace or the
cottage.

Duncannon and Ross are free from cholera.
During its prevalence, the country people would not
suffer any intercourse with these places, but laid, with-
in a convenient distance, 500 stone of potatoes gratis,
for the use of the inhabitants.--Dub/in Freeman's
Journal.

Our correspondent at Berwick-upon-Tweed
writes to us that the late winter on the border has been
extremely mild : the Cheviot Hills, which are most
conspicuous for the heights of Halidon, are not as
usual clad in their mantle of white : the weather at
present is remarkably fine and pleasant, and this ro-
mantic country is really delightful. As a proof of the
mildness of the season, not any ice could be procured
for packing up the salmon of the Tweed for the Lon-
don market ; in consequence, several ships have been
engaged to procure a supply of this article from Nor-
way ; one cargo has just arrived ; it is perfectly solids
and not the least portion of it dissolved.—Stamford
News.

FIRE.—lt is our painful duty to announce,
the destruction of the distillery of Richard M. Lynch,
Esq., which took place on Thursday evening by fire.
At about half-past five o'clock in the afternoon, the
concerns were discovered to be on fire, and in the
short interval of half an hour, the flames acquired
such ascendancy, owing to the inflammable materials
in the building, that all attempts to resist with effect,
even for a few moments, their destructive influence,
would be utterly hopeless. The preservation of the
mill and store adjoining exclusively engrossed the at-
tention of the vast concourse of persons assembled,
and by the united exertions of the inhabitants, the fire
was not suffered to extend to these premises, by which
a further loss of property was prevented. We are
gratified to learn, that the distillery and the property
in it, have been insured to the amount of 9,0001. Tne
fire, as we are informed, originated in tke cf,unpit-
rooamhe.
ay Happily Free no
Press. lives were lost on the occasion.—
GWednesday an inquest was held before Mr,
Stirling, at the Six Bells, Willesden, on the body of
John Halfaire, a fine little boy, aged three. Sarah
Halfaire, the mother, said that about three years since
she was enceinte by a farmer's son, who had seduced
her. He offered a sum of money to a labourer, named
Halfaire, to marry her, which he consented to do.
The deceased was born after the marriage ; and when
the money had been expended, her husband treated
the infant very cruelly, so that she was obliged to send
him to her mother's for a time. On Sunday night,
the 6th inst., her husband complained that the child
had touched his leg in bed, and he seized the poor
thing and smacked him on the loins for a considerabl
lime ; after which he threw him out of the bed. The
child could scarcely stand, and became very ill. When
his loin was touched he shrieked with agony, and his
mother therefore took him in the evening of the next
day to Mr. Gerr, the parish surgeon. The child died
on the Sunday following. The surgeon said the child's
hotvels were inflamed, and erysipelas appeared about
the loins, but he could not say that this had been
caused by beating. The jury returned a verdict---Died
by inflammation,

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

There exists, as we understand, on the part of those
ill judging bodies the trades' unions, an intention of
meeting in formidable numbers on Monday next, at
the old rendezvous of disturbance, Copenhagen-fields.
The professed object of the meeting is a legal one,—
for so are all professed purposes legal. It is to pre-
pare and transmit through the Secretary of State to
his Majesty a petition to revoke or mitigate the sen-
tence lately passed on the six Dorsetshire convicts,
and now in course of execution. Of the legality of
this profession there can be no possible doubt. Of the
merits of the parties on whose behalf the petition is to
be presented, we shall say nothing; but that three of
them at least knew thoroughly what they were doing
—to wit, the two preachers, and one who had been
confined in gaol during four months for felony. But
let that pass : we were not aware of it when, at first,
we impugned the severity of their sentence. Further,
with regard to Monday next, it is rumoured that the
unionists are to march in procession through the
principal streets, such as Oxford-street, Regent-
street, &c., down to Whitehall, in regular divisions
under their respective leaders, with banners and other
insignia, and that at Whitehall they are to present a
petition to Lord Melbourne for the Sovereign in fa-
vour of the above transgressors. Their own numbers
they estimate at 200,000 or 300,000 men ; but a tenth
of that number will suffice for the purpose of their
leaders, which is no other than that of intimidation
over the government, the authorities, the property and
all the moral force of this vast metropolis and its sur-
rounding districts. If to intimidate be not the aim of
these men, why do they call together such frightful
multitudes, which, even with the best intentions and
most skilful organization, must prove intractable to
any commands of their leaders, from the excitement
under which they assemble, and by which they have
for months past been so sedulously and successfully in-
flamed. Is it necessary to meet myriads at a time in
order to frame a petition ? No : but the object is ma-
nifestly to overawe King William IV., and his Cabinet
Ministers, by an imposing array of the means of physical
violence. Now an attempt to overawe the King's govern-
ment by such means amounts, in common speech, to
nothing short of insurrection—and in law, to something
not very far short of treason. They may not intend evil
—we are certain that the majority do not—but in such
circumstances will they be able to prevent it ? Can
their chiefs be sure of restraining men so raised and
agitated from chance-medley breaches of the peace ?
And are they aware in that case of what must happen?
The police are numerous; and as to discipline, which
means the power of combined action, they constitute a
military power more effective than any mob. But if
a conflict should unhappily ensue, there are others
ready to take part in it. There are several regiments
of cavalry, battalions of infantry, and brigades of artil-
lery, at the immediate disposal of the Executive Go-
vernment. We are sure that there will not be an in-
temperate or arbitrary recourse to military power ;
but if resorted to, which God forbid ! we can assure
our misguided fellow-subjects, that it must be in-
stantaneously triumphant over such really flimsy oppo-
sition as trades' unions, however noisy, presumptuous,
and menacing, can dare at any time to bring forward.
At whose door, then, will lie the blood of Eng-
lishmen ? Not, unquestionably, at that of the pro-
tective, but of the tumultuous and offensive, party.
And what ought to be the resolution acted upon by
all prudent, discreet, and loyal persons in reference to
next Monday's proceedings ? Obviously to keep aloof
from the fray, to curb their idle curiosity, and to pro-
vide that their children and servants all remain quietly
at home. Lookers-on at a scene of outrage, or of
outrageous tendency, are ever in the greatest danger.
They are not in the secrets of the meditated attack
and defence. They know not whither to betake them-
selves for shelter, nor of whom to ask for help; their
occupation may be harmless in their own eyes, though
it is not so in the eye of the law. They are unlaw-
ful accessories to the crimes they witness, and justice
may reach them, if the ball or sabre does not. Let
us conjure, therefore, all sober and well disposed in-
dividuals to stay far off from the inauspicious meeting.
Home is the fitting post of every man whose active
services are not called for by public duty. For the
sake of the unionists themselves, let not any but their
own dupes swell out the ranks of the agitating leaders,
perhaps only to hasten on their illegal movements.
Nothing but ill can come of even the slightest partici-
pation in those proceedings by which the peace of the
metropolis is threatened ; therefore, once more, we do
oeseech all well-disposed men to guard their own do-
mestic firesides ; and the authorities we would remind,
that to them belongs the task, the duty of prevention.
The public looks to them for the preservation of the
public peace.— Times.
We regret to hear that it is the intention of the
restless leaders of the trades' unions to call together
the industrious and, as we sincerely think, honest and
well intentioned workmen, who have been, many of
them, artfully seduced, while others have been forci-
bly compelled to enrol themselves members of these
secret societies, on Monday morning, in Copenhagen-
fields. According to the rumours which have reached
us, it is said to be the plan of these designing leaders
and delegates to assemble twenty of the different
trades, marshalled and divided under their respective
and distinguishing banners, and to march in mili-
tary array from Copenhagen-fields, early on Mon-
day forenoon, through some of the most populous
streets in the metropolis, such as Oxford-street and
Regent-street, down to Whitehall. On arriving
there, a deputation from this multitude are to present
a petition to the King, at some one of the public
offices. Such is the news, as reported to us last night;
but we can hardly believe that the sensible workmen
svill be led to take any part in such an absurd and don-
e-PIA proceeding. It is clear that should this plan
acted upon, no good can result from it. The
design can only be to intimidate and overawe the
legal authorities by an ostentatious display of physical
forge, Now, in this the instigators of the popular
movement will assuredly fail. Whatever difference of
opinion may be entertained as to the sentence pro-
.nouneed upon the Dorsetshire labourers, it is obvious
ti:st threats of violence, and the collecting together an
immense crowd to besiege the office of the Secretary
of State, cannot prevent the law from taking its
course. The moral influence of a fair and calmly_
worded petition to the Throne for a mitigation of
punishment, cannot but be destroyed by any attempt
to back the prayer of the petition by the appearance of
an immense multitude, assembled under such ques-
tionable circumstances. We would fain hope, there-
fore, that the leaders, on whom a fearful responsibility
will rest, will pause, while it is yet time, and renounce
their absurd design. They must cause interruption
to business, and may cause alarm to the peaceable in-
habitants in the streets through which they pass, and any
outrage, or breach of the peace, which must be repressed,
may be attended with serious accidents, perhaps
the loss of the lives of innocent persons. Those who
are intrusted with the preservation of the public peace
will of course be on the alert, and no doubt all
due precautions will be taken to guard against
any destruction of life or property ; but when im-
mense masses are assembled, when thieves and pick-
pockets will mingle among the honest men of the
Unions, the least accident may occasion serious dis-
turbances. We confess that we look with alarm
upon all such foolish processions. We are and ever
have been the warm friends of the labouring and pro-
ductive classes, and will yield to none in the endea-
vour to better and to elevate their condition. It
therefore gives us great pain to witness proceedings
which can have only a prejudicial effect on the rate
of wages, for whatever tends to destroy confidence and
4'o arrest the free employment of capital, must inevi-
- lessen the demand for labour, and prove injurious
tably
to all who live. 1
by their daily exertions. Union and
10 means the ng ; and we
intimidation are
at a losssame to seethi how any ob-
fear most people will
0 ugh union is to be pro-
ject which can be attained th r
—Morning Chronicle.
moted by immense xssgrablages.

A novelty occurred on Sonclay last at St.
Peter's church when the minister was publishing the
bans of marriage. On his announcing the names of a
particular couple, a respectable-looking woman near
the reading-desk stood up and said, " I forbid the
bans 1" The rector immediately rose and requested
she would call in the vestry after the morning service.
We understand that her objection was, that the gay
Lothario had promised to marry her, and therefore she
thought her entering her caveat in the nick of time
would at least be an " impediment" in his way to hap-
piness with her rival. How far it may operate is un-
certain ; we appreheizd, however, that she is not likely
to recover the faithless goiwn.—Ltverpool Chronicle.
On Thursday last some workmen discovered
at North Stoke, Arundel, embedded ip the earth near
the river, a canoe, which, after consitlere.bl.c labour,
they succeeded in raising, It is tbirty-four feet !Oag,
and appears to have been manufactured from the trunk
of a large tree, but of what description of wood can-
not be ascertained.

LONDON,
SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 19, 1834.

We understand that the second reading of
the Poor Laws Bill is fixed for Monday se'nnight,
and we hear that its provisions have given great
satisfaction, not only to the House of Commons
but to the magistracy and the farmers through-
out the country. There is a general feeling
that an important change had become indis-
pensable, and a desire to shift the heavy re-
sponsibility which it is thought that none are so
able to bear as the government of the country,
The Commissioners will be nominated by
the Crown and removeable by the Crown.
The regulations they make will of course
be subject to the approval of the Crown,
The Bill does not make it imperative on
the Commissioners to direct that relief shall
be refused to all who will not resort to the
workhouse, although the general principle un-
doubtedly is that work shall be there provided,
and that unless especial reason should be shown
the vestries shall not continue the practice, now
so common and so ruinous. The Commis-
sioners will establish general rules—these will
be submitted to the approval of the Crown—
they cannot be carried into operation, until
sufficient time has been allowed to any
parishes to make their objections to them
—these objections will be well considered;
and if there are, as there will undoubtedly be,
cases in which it will be most for the advantage
of particular parishes to deviate from the gene-
ral rule, there can be no doubt but the commis-
sioners or the Government will allow the ex-
ception. In short, wherever the affairs of the
poor are well conducted, there the commission-
ers will have no occasion, and certainly
no wish, to interfere. The power will be
taken out of the hands of overseers to
make a market of the poor; the farmers to turn
their necessities to their personal advantage in
the reduction of the price of labour; and of ma-
gistrates to save themselves from unpleasant
feelings at the expense of the best interests,
not of the landlords only, but of tht poor
themselves.

The measure is certainly one of vast impor-
tance. All former Governments have shrunk
from the responsibility of undertaking any
effectual correction of a system which they
admitted to be productive of all manner
of evils, and if the present Government
have taken it upon themselves, and can
carry it into satisfactory operation, they
will certainly render a service to the country,
second only, in importanee to the Reform Bill
itself. As we have already observed, much
will depend on their wisdom in the selection of
the commissioners, to whom a large discretion
will be given, but subject to the control of Go-
vernment, the Parliament, and public opinion.

The strange animadversions made last night
by Mr. SINCLAIR and Mr. A. JOHNSTONE on
the grant to Maynooth College, would not de-
serve notice, bnt that these gentlemen put
themselves forward on every occasion as the
guardians of pure Presbyterians in Scotland,
and the advocates of every bigotted—we had
almost said, every unchristian doctrine. We
should blush for the inhabitants of the North
if even one in a thousand concurred in sen-
timents which would revive the worst
days, not of polemical warfare, but of unrelent-
ing and bloody persecution. Men animated by
such sentiments never could live in amity with
any other sect ; they are so vain of the purity of
their doctrines, and so bigotted in their views
of the faith and doctrines of others, that if their
numbers were equal to the virulence of their
feelings,
they would attempt? we will not

say by sword and faggots, but by galling
restrictions and legislative persecution, to
put down every other sect. Thank GOD! their
power is not equal to their wishes ! For some
years the trifling sum of 8,9781. has been voted
for the purpose of educating young men for
the Catholic church of Ireland, and at the mo-
ment Parliament is legislating on tithes, and
passing a bill to compel all Catholic landlords
to contribute to the support of the Protestant
clergy, these two pious individuals would refuse
even this small pittance for the purposes of
education. If the refusal would tend to check
the evil, there might be some sense in the argument
—but as it would have precisely the contrary
effect, we can attribute this opposition only to
the most hopeless ignorance, or to blindness of
heart, to pride, vain glory, hypocrisy, and all
uncharitableness. Do these legislators not see
that if the grant were withdrawn—nay, if an
act were passed prohibiting any seminary for
catholic priests in this country—the young men
intended for the church would be welcomed at
the universities abroad as martyrs to their
faith ; and would return to their native country
imbued with feelings the most hostile to a Pro-
testant government, and prepared to instil them
into an ignorant and easily excited population,
and that if their religious doctrines were carried
to the full extent (and they are bound to fol-
' low them up), we should again have the flame
of discord raised throughout Ireland, and see
renewed all the horrors of bloodshed and the
worst period of Orange misrule and persecution?
Yet they appeal to GOD and their consciences
for the sincerity of their feelings. We
doubt not their sincerity any more than the
sincerity of the Roman Catholics, when tolera-
tion was unknown, and they appealed to the
Supreme Being before they put their bloodiest
designs in execution. Men, under the in-
fluence of perverted feelings, may find reasons
for every species of cruelty and iniquity. The
day of persecution, however, is gone by ; all
history—and none more than the history of
Irish wrongs--shows that persecution only adds
strength to proselytism, and that the only way
to reclaim mankind from religious errors,
is by good example—by patience in well doing,
and by the exercise of a virtue in which these
Presbyterians are sadly deficient—the virtue of
charity. Our Northern brethren will not thank
them for this unseasonable display of religious
ardour which, whatever Mr. SINCLAIR and
Mr.ANDREW JOHNSTONE may wish the public
to believe, is as contrary to the principles and
practice of the Scotch church, as to sound
sense and morality.

The most important information communi-
cated in the French papers is, that among the
persons arrested in Lyons was a son of Gen.
BOURMONT, and M. SARDA, the commander
of the steam-vessel Carlo-Alberto, which
landed the Duchess of BERRI on the coast of
Provence some time ago. A telegraph near
Auxerre, on the road from Lyons, was burnt
on Tuesday by an armed band. The Emperor
of MOROCCO had, it is stated, in letters from
Larache, to a person in Marseilles, pro-
claimed war against the King 'of NAPLES,
and was about to send four ships to sea,
in search of Neapolitan merchantmen. They
talk at Vienna of despatching a commissioner
to the Congress of Zurich to insist on the
removal from Switzerland of the Polish and
other political refugees.

FRENCH FUNDS.—PARis, APRIL 17.
Five per Cents., 104 f. 103 f. 95c.
Four per Cents., 92f. 75c.
Three per Cents., 77f. 80c. 75c. 60c.
Bank Actions, 1,783 f.
Rente de Naples, 94f. 60c. 55c.
Roman Five per Cents., 96 95%14.
Rente d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 27yq U.
Rente d'Espagne, Three per Cehts., 40%K.
Royal Spanish Loan, 82A.
Rente Perpet. d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 66 65%.
Belgian Loan, 1831, Five per Cent., 97.
EXCHANGE ON LONDON.
One month, paper, 25f. 30c. ; money, 25f. 20c.
Three months, paper, —f. —c. ; money, 25f. 17%c.
—Cours Authentique.

The German papers state that the Congress
is unremitting in its labours, and will be closed
in a short time ; and that letters from Constan-
tinople announce that the Greek ambassador,
ZOGRAPHOS had been received in audience by
the Porte.

VIENNA, APRIL B.—Metalliques, Five per Cents., 97% ;
Ditto, Four per Cents., 88% ; Bank Shares, 1,2481-h.

The Brussels papers, dated 16th inst., have
been received : they contain nothing of impor-
tance. Messrs. WA RREL L and PRELOWSK I,
Polish refugees, yesterday received orders to quit
Belgium in twenty-four hours. M. DAN-
DURAU, editor of the Pandore, an obscure
theatrical journal, M. DE BETHUNE, editor of
La Papillotte et l'Eclaire, and M. BAS IL LE,
who has been supposed to be concerned in edit-
ing La Jeune Belgique, received orders yester-
day to quit Belgium within twenty-four hours.

We find Mr. MUNDELL begins with educa-
tion in the nursery, and traces its progress
through elementary schools, advanced schools,
and the universities. He exposes the preju-
dice which excepted from the operation of the
inquiry concerning churches all our great
schools by name, and the two universities,
with every school which has a special visiter:'
Positive injustice would thereby be done to the
upper ranks, who were thus excluded from the
benefit of an inquiry which was extended to the
lower. Much of our present situation arises from
the faulty education of the higher orders. Hence
it is, that there is more of sound information
without than within the walls of Parliament,
and the weakness within must yield to the
strength that is without, not thereby meaning
physical force but moral power, which governs,
directs, and controls physical force.
As the speediest means of arriving at the
information which might long ago have been
obtained by the commissioners for churches, if
they had been permitted to extend their in-
quiries to our great schools and universities,
Mr. MUNDELL suggests that the heads of
those establishments should be required to re-
port to Parliament copies of the statutes of
each of their several foundations, with a descrip-
tion of the property belonging to each founda-
tion ; the annual revenue or returns received]

therefrom, and the mode of application there-
of, with the matters taught, the manner in
which they are taught, and the number of
scholars or students attending each establish-
ment. Parliament, he observes, has it in its
power to direct further inquiries, if the reports
thus to be made to it shall be insufficient. But
a great. deal of information may be thus
speedily obtained, that may be useful for the
purposes for which it is required.

We trust this suggestion will not escape the
LORD CHANCELLOR, Who was the author of
the inquiry still making concerning charities.

We give to-day an abstract of an important
motion in the Common Pleas for a rule for a
new trial. The rule has been granted. The
proceedings arose out of the celebrated contest
at Shaftesbury between Lord GROSVENOR'S
nominee and Mr. (now Sir) CHARLES
KNOWLES. The latter refused to pay the
expenses incurred by one of his agents,
Mr. GEORGE CHITTY, a considerable part
of which were on account of the legal defence
of a large number of voters in the interest of
Mr. K NOWLE s. Hence arose a trial at Dor-
chester, in which the latter obtained a verdict.
Mr. CHITTY applied for a rule for a new trial,
which has been granted, and will no doubt be
made absolute.

LITERATURE.

CONSPIRACY. 3 Vols. London, 1834.

The subject of this romance is the well-
known conspiracy headed by the Marquis of
Bedamar, acting for the interests of Spain,
against Venice, and more especially the power
of its terrible council of Ten, which took place
somewhere about the close of the 16th century.
This conspiracy, it may be remembered, sup-
plied Otway with the materials for his tragedy
of Venice Preserved, whose most prominent
characters, Jaffier and Pierre, figure also in
these volumes. The " fine, gay, bold-faced
villain," however, of the drama, dwindles into
a mere nonentity in the novel ; while Jaf-
6er remains pretty much in statu quo. The
character of M. Arnault, the busy, in-
triguing, French adventurer, is well brought
out in the work before us ; it is, indeed, its re-
,
deeming portion, being full of spirit and shrewd
touches of individuality. As next in skill and
ability to this, we may mention the Greek
courtezan, which is a good conception ; and
the hatred which she is represented as bearing
towards the state of Venice, is in keeping with
the feelings of the Greeks of those days towards
the " sea-Cybele." The great fault of the
work is, that it is too much cumbered with de-
scription, and split into episodes. Almost
every personage, male or female, as he or she
enter on the stage, preface their introduction
by a long story. Now this is very awkwardly
contrived, and throws a stiff, artificial air over
the narrative, whose progress it also sadly im-
pedes. Perhaps the most interesting portions
of the narrative—interesting because it flows on
with more ease and spirit—are the two or three
first chapters, descriptive of the solitary impri-
sonment and subsequent death of a high-born
young Venetian mother, with her infant, in an
old castle, situated on a barren crag, in the
wildest part of the shore of the Adriatic. We
give an extract :
" It was now that one might see how lovely a creature
she was, and how unfitted to 'be the inmate of such a
home, for this miserable and ruinous castle was from hence-
forth to be her home. . She seemed to be about twenty
years of age, and, was formed on a model of exquisite
beauty. In her figure there was faultless symmetry—her
face was pale, but that paleness, deadly as it was, took not
from its perfect beauty—her forehead was high, and the
black and glossy tresses, parted in the centre, hung in wild
clusters, which contrasted beautifully with its pure and
marble whiteness—her eyes were dark, and their expression,
amidst the terrible suffering which clouded them, was yet
sweet and gentle, and over them the eyebrows arched with
a regularity rare to look upon. Her mouth was formed as
faultlessly as the other features, and seldom indeed
might one expect to behold a face more lovely,
or a figure more exquisite. If she looked so in sor-
row and distress, what must she have been before misfor-
tune overtook her ; and was such a fair and fragile crea-
ture to be for ever banished from that world she was
formed to ornament, and were the days of her life to come
to be passed upon this bare and barren rock, to watch the
winds and the waves as they howled and dashed around her
melancholy abode?
" There was a still and fixed look of despair in her coun-
tenance which told that now there was no hope for her on
earth. She complained not—her eye was lustreless ; there
was only now and then the half stifled and convulsive sob
which told inward suffering—she knew it would be vain to
show all that she did suffer by external marks of grief, for
there was no one here to take pity on her.
" But deserted as she was, there still was one being to
whom she was and would be everything. It was her child,
and she held the unconscious infant with the grasp of one
who feared that the last object which made life at all de-
sirable might also be torn from her.
" This, however, was not the intention of her persecu-
tors, they wished her to retain her child; for those who
had exiled her to this barren rock hated that child
even more than its mother. It was the offspring
of one who had been the hereditary and irreconcilable
enemy of their house, of one whom they conceived to have
disgraced and dishonoured their name by a secret connex-
ion with their sister, of one too high for them to dare to
take the vengeance they panted for. But when they wished
the child to be brought up in ignorance, they little knew
there is that in the breast of a mother which, amidst sor-
rows, privations, and sufferings, will conquer everything
for the sake of her child.

" She sate in the cold chamber silent and motionless,
with that infant pressed to her bosom, and even at such a
moment she had attempted, and succeeded in her attempt,
to hush it into slumber. The tall and stern figure, who
seemed to order everything, took no notice of her, but
stood at the narrow window in deep and sullen thought,
gazing upon the blue expanse of water which stretched
away from the base of the rock."

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-THIS DAY

(FROM LLOYD'S.)
DEAL, APRIL 18. —Wind E. N. E., fresh.—The French
brig Ida is just off the Goodwin, and steering towards
Ramsgate.
PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 18.—Wind S.E.—Arrived his
Majesty's ship Pantaloon, from Lisbon and Falmouth.
PLYMOUTH, APRIL 17.—Wind E.—Arrived the Ruby,
Sims, from Riga.
FALMOUTH, APRIL 17.—Wind E., strong breezes and
squally.
LIVERPOOL, APRIL 17.—Wind E.—Arrived the Mis-
chief, Brown, from Lisbon—sailed the Bth instant ; Pol-
gooth, Olivar, from Charente ; Maria, Benjamin, and Co-
lombia, Brabander, from Antwerp ; and Engelina, Bosk,
from Rotterdam. Sailed the Monarch, Beachman, for
Ceylon.
LONDONDERRY, APRIL 16.—Arrived the Malvina, Bee,
from Riga.
Cons, APRIL 17.—Arrived the Diana, Downing, from
Oporto.
GIBRALTAR, MARCH 22.—The Columbia, Erickson,
from Porto Rico to Marseilles, stranded near Algeciras,
has been got off after discharging.
ROUEN, APRIL 15.—The Gabrielle, Huon, from Mar-
seilles to this port, is on shore near Bouille, and is not ex-
pected to be got off.

Off the Wight the Tronalyem, Graac, from Lisbon.
The Seaham, Rickaby, from Sunderland to Montreal,
put into Shields, leaky, and must discharge.
The Venus, Harvey, from Arundel to Swansea, put into
Falmouth, with main-mast sprung.

The skeleton discovered last week near the
Park is still lying in the Town Hall. The teeth re-
main in the skull quite perfect.-..-Brighton Gazette.