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LA W INT.HLLIGENCE—Ireb, 6.

JUDICIAL Ca.',-,I.".IITTEriI OF 77 !-] PRIV't
COUNCIL.

(Before the Bishop of London, Lord justice Knight
Brace, Lord Justice Turner, Mr. Pemberton
Leigh, and Sir E. Ryan.)
THE CASE OF ARCHDEACON DENISON.
DITCHER 'V. DENISON.
This was an appeal from a decree of the Court of
Arches pronounced on the 23d of April, 1857, re-
versing a sentence of deprivation against Arch-
deacon Denison passed by the Diocesan Court of
Bath and Wells. The proceedings had been
originally instituted by the Rev. J °Beall Ditcher,
vicar of South Brent, under the Church Discipline
ACt (3 and 4 Victoria, chap. 86), on the ground
that certain sermons preached by the Archdeacon
in 1853 maintained doctrine contrary to the articles
of the Church of England. A commission was
issued, and various steps taken under that act, and
in October, 1856, the Diocesan Court, presided over
by the Archbishop of Canterbury, assisted by. Dr.
Lushington, having come to the conclusion that
the archdeacon's doctrine was unsound, required
him to recant, and upon his refusal pronounced
sentence of deprivation. This sentence was re-
versed by the Court of Arches on the ground that
Mr. Ditcher was barred by the 20th section of the
act, which provides " that every suit or proceeding
against any such clerk in holy oide.s fur any
offence against the laws ecclesiastical shall be com-
menced within two years after the commission of
the offence in respect of which the suit or
proceeding shall be instituted, and not after-
wards." The only question raised by the appeal
therefore was whether the• construction put by
the Court of Arches upon that section was
correct. The case was argued in December
last, and fully reported in The San of the sth of
that month.
Lord. Justice Knight Bruce this morning deli-
vered judgment. His lordship stated at leng.h Win
various proceedings which had been taken since
October, 1854, when Mr. Ditcher first made his
complaint to the Archbishop of Canterbury. It
is, however, unnecessary to give more than the
dates of some of those proceedings. The commis-
sion to inquire into the allegations in the complaint
was issued in November, 1854; notice was given
to the archdeacon in December, 1854 ; the com-
missioners sat and made their report in January,
1855 • articles of accusation were drawn up by Mr.
Ditcl!er and served upon the archdeacon in August,
1855 ; but, articles of accusation were not exhi-
bited against him in the court at Beth until June,
1856, and sentence of deprivation was pronounced
by that court in October, 1856. His lordship said
that the whole of the act had received from their
lordships great and prolonged, he had almost added
painful, attention, for probably no writing ever in
a stronger degree required that net any portion
should be judicially construed without weighing
the whole. It could not, in the first place, escape
observation that the word "suit" was of less extent
than the word " proceeding," and that in the sec-
tion upon which this question turned the word
" proceeding" came after the word "suit." Having
weighed the whole of the Watt/le, their lordships
had come to the conclusion that the phrase
"every suit or proceeding" in that secti"n, un-
less the phrase meant every suit merely and
nothing else, meant "every suit and every pro-
ceeding," nor less nor more. Before enter-
ing on the next questien it might be well to
observe that, notwithstanding the 1 030 and,ivaccu-
rate language in the Act, the Legislature had made
a sufficient distinction between a suit, properly so
called, and the preliminary inquiries out of which
a suit might arise. A clerk might, indeed, obviate
the necessity for a suit by submitting te a sentence
as a result of the preliminary inquiries ; but ueless
he did so he had a right to have the case ag tinst
him decided secundtnn calegata, et pr.obata, in a suit
regularly consti.utel. They then earns to the
question whether the " suit" iu which was 're-
nounced the decree of deprivation at Bali in 1853
was "commenced within two years after" the
offence in respect of which the "suit" was insti-
tuted, and not afterwards. In considering that
question their lordships dismissed fram considera-
tion, every, if any, such offence as had tak-n place
on the part of the archdeacon since 1853. If,
therefore, the suit was not commenced before 1856
it was ill commenced, and the sentence of depriva-
tion must fail. Now, it was not until April, 1856,
or liter, that there was any citation of the arch-
deacon, or any requisition for him to appear before
any judge or anywhere. Mr. Ditcher's learned
counsel, however, had ably centended that the
archdeacon was deprival in a "suit or proceeding"
wh4:ll was cotnmetied by the commission, or by
what took place between the comm;ssion and re-
p )rt, or by the report or its registration, or by the
filing of the "articles" in August, 1855, or by the
service in that month of a copy of those " aeticle,"
en the archdeacon. Their lordhip; however,
were of opinion, witji Sir John Dodson, that this
proposition was untenable. The report was not, the
inquisition or investigation under the com-
mission was " not, nor was the commission,
nor- was Mr. Ditcher's application to the arch-
bishop for a commission, a suit, or the com-
mencement or any pert of a suit. The commis-
sion and the inquisition or investigation under it
were merely steps for obtaining the opinion, and
the report was merely the opinion so obtained, of
five clerical gentlemen, in the selection of not one
of whom had the proposed 'rens a voice, whether
- there was ground prima facie for instituting a suit.
Neither the ,report made, nor any report cap-
able of being made, under the commission amount-
ed, or could have amounted, to an a tjudicstion ol
liersy or error of any kind against Mr. Denison,
He could not lawfully, before the year 1856, have
been ueprived, punished, or censured without li s
consent ; nor in nor after the year' 1856 was it, in-
dependently of what took place in April, 1856, or
the following month, possible without his consent
to deprive, punish, or censure him. Tam, as to
the filing of the articles in August, 1855, and the
service in the same month of a copy of them on the
erebdeacon, each of these steps he was entitled to
deregard until served with a oration or regtAtsition
under the 9th section of the Act, in the mantle;
directed by the loth ; as long as there was no stick
service the article (I housh preventing lettere of re-
quest) were in truth, as against him, a nullity.
they did not cite, cAnmand, I.( quire, or invite his
attendance or appearance in any court, or at any
place or time. The role or maxim, "Scraper in
dabize benigniora prceferentia," was es true in the
law of England as in the Roman law, and the sta
tote before them was at once a law of criminal pro-
cedure as to the offences to which it releted and a
Statute of Limitations as to penal prosecution,.
With refrence to that character, the.presninptiou or
inclination ought to be infavour of the person charg-
- el with an offence, and sued penally under it. And
their Lordships were of opinion that they constru-
ed the 20th section consistently with the rules and
idiom of the English language, and, omni considc-
rata scripturci, agreeably to the spirt and general
intention of the act of Parliament, by holding, with
the learned Dean of the Arches, that a suit was nil
constituted by the application for the commission,
or by the commission, report, and articles, or by
' any one or more of them, or by the service of the
articles on the archd acon ; that the suit, conse-
quently, in which the Bath judgment was pro-
cc was not commenced, was not a "proceed-
ing" begun, before April, 1856 ; that the archdea-
con not having been proved to have committed any
offence after the year 1853, there was accordingly
not a suite commenced within the time prescribed
by the 20th section ; -that the commission and re-
port fell to the ground therefore, and became
wholly worthless ; that every such proceeding, if
any, as existed before April, 1855, having thus,
before April, 1856, failed and become extinct, no
such proceeding was capable of supporting or as-
sisting anything clone in or after April, 1856 ; and
that, as the necessary result of such a st ate of
things, the proceedings against him subsequent to
the year 1855 were altogether groundless and had'.
Their lordships were not unaware of the inconve-
nience possible to arise from unavoidable delay be-
tween the issuing of a commission and the making
of a report under it accordina to their reading of
the act ; but neither could th'ey avoid seeing the
mischief, equal or greater, likely to arise from
bolding that a penslsui. instituted against,
a clergyman, founded on a report made 20 years
before it. Their lordships felt somewhat less diffi-
dence than they otherwise should do in differing
from so high an authority as the learned Judge of
the Consistory Court (Dr. Lushington), by reason
of the probability that he was precluded from tak-
ing time for deliberst:on, and of the weighty judg-
ment of that exnerienced ecclesiastical lawyer, the
Dean of the At ches (Sir J. Dodson), and the pre-
vious judicial opinious (to be found in 3 and 4,
Notes of Cases, and 2 Rob.) with which that judg-
ment agreed. For the rea,ons that had been now
stated, it was their lordships' intention to report
10 her Msjesty, that, in their judgment,
the present appeal should be dismissed, but
without costs. Of course, it was understood that
upon the question of heterodoxy, the question
whether the respondent had at any time uttered
heretical doctrine or committed any ecclesiastical
offence, their lordships had intimated no opinion.

Mr, Peter Harcourt, licensed victualler at Wolver-
hampton, met on' Tuesday with a terrible death by
failing into the brewery boiler. He managed to get out
himself ; but he died at four o'clock the next morning.
From what he said it would seem that he must have
fallen :Weep while bitting cn the edge of the copper
waiting for the water to boil, which had to be put over
the grains for the last time. He fell in backwards, and
was, of oourae, completely immerged in the scalding
liquid.

ITHE NEW ALIEN BILE AND ENGLISH
_ LIBITTY.

. The prop .sal of a change in the Criminal Law
immediately after the offensive demonstrations
which have been made in France must necessarily
be unpopular. Lord Palmerston can only hope to
carry his measure through the House of Commons
by showing that a defect in the existing law_ has
been discovered, and that the remedy suggested is
in strict conformity with the prineiples of English
jurisprudence. The irritation which prevails will
probably be soothed when it is found that there
is no intention of making any of the conces-
sions which have been demanded in France with
so much unseemly clamour. Speciel legislation
against refugees, punishment without trial and
conviction, and interference with political discus-
sion have never b -en contemplated by the Govern-
ment, as they would assuredly not be tolerated by
any section of the people. Lord Palmerston's
notice is confined to the solitary offence of con-
spiracy to commit murder. An increased severity
of punishment for a crime universally odious seems
not to be in itself unreasoneb'e, Lul whether it will
afford any additional security to foreign potentates
is a different question. It is quite certain that the
intended law would have been wholly ineffectual
against Pierri and Orsini, inasmuch as their pur-
pose was unknown to the police in England as well
as in France. The rules of evidence will not be
relaxed to suit the convenience of foreigners, but
the same facilities which have atways been afforded
to friendly Couris will still enable their representa-
tives to prosecute any agent or accomplice in a pro-
ject of assassination. • No such process has been
instituted hitherto, for the simple reason that con-
spirators are not in the habit of betraying their
intentions, and Count Persigay and hie colleagues
may probably find that a difficulty inherent in the
nature of the case will not be overcome by the
transformation of a misdeme tnour into a felony.
The offence of conspiracy is the most elastic known
to the law, nor will the utmost ingenuity succeed
in giving it a wider definition. Whenever two
perssns agree to do an unlawful act, or to pursue a
lawful object by unlawful means, they are guilty
of conspiracy. By a liberal but undoubted exten-
sion of the rule the offence may be completed, al-
though the meditated crime is to be perpetrated in
a foreign country. As Lord Campbell and Lord
Brougham have explained, the concert of two per-
sons to commit a murder in France is indictable
under the present law ; the only condition of con-
spiracy is that two or more persons must take part
in the guilty combination. The Chief Justice fur-
ther states that a single instigator of a murder to be
committed abroad may be indicted for a misde-
meanour, but the case of Feargus O'Connor,
who was tried for exciting disaffection in the
United Kingdom, 'furnishes no -authority for the
assertion, and if the Ministerial Bill is confined
to the objects proposed in she notice no change will
take place in the. liability of selitary offender.
It is.a rule of law that there can ire no accessories
to a misdemeanour ; but, as all whe take part in
the unlawful transaction may be punished as prin-
cipals, the distinction is, for the most part, purely
technical. If, however, tho coMmiesioti of murder
beyond the seas is deSlared to be a felony in Eng-
land, any person who may have been accessory to a
successful attempt at assassination ale oast will tie
deemed guilty of murder. By the well-known Act
of Geo-ge IV. English suhjects May be convicted
of any murder which they may have committed in
a foreign jurisdic ion, but it is more than doubtful
whether the provision wauld apply to aliens, wh(s,
when the crime was committed, had withdrawn
from their temporary and local allegiance to Eng-
land. If Orsini had unhappily succeeded in his at.
tempt, and had subsequen ly escaped to England,
he could only have been broualit to justice under
the provisions of. an Extradition Act. There is,
however, probably no oountry in Europe which at-
tempts to punish any offences but those which
are committed either within its own borders or by
its own subject. The law by which Englishmen are
made aims!' tole to justice at home for homicides
eomtnitted abroad is an exception, and a compara-
tively recent innovation. An accessory to the felony
created by the statute would incur the same penalty
with the principal offender ; bet it would probably
be held that there eon:Abe access ,ry to murder
committed by an alien in a foreign jurisdiction, as
the act itself would not be cognizable by. an Eng-
lish Court.
All that can be done is to make all complicity
in murderous debigni equally punishable if it is
proved to exist within the United Kingdom.
Where the crime was aconnplished any share in it
would be capital if the actual murderer was an
English subject. The accessory in England might.
be made -habit) to the same consequences for the
act of ha foreign confederate. No such distinc-
tion exists in the more ordinary cases of con-
spiracy ; but, irrespectively of
,the particular occa
Dion, it is unreasonable that aplot to commit mur-
der should be included in the same legal definition
wi, h confederacy to cheat at cards. 'An assanta
with intent to kill is proptaly'distinguiShed front
rn ordinary act of violence. The concert to per
petrate au atrocious crime may fairly to withdrawn
as a substantive offense from the promiscuous cata-
logue of unlawful assoeiiitons.
The debates, which commence to day, will pro-
bably satisfy reasonable foreigners that the CAD-
plaints which have Leen urged against England
are entirely groundless. Hire, ebewhere, it
is (Insult to anticipate the criminal -intentions of
Would-be assassins who are wise enough to keep
their own secret. If by word or act they take steps
towards the accampliehment of their design they
ins'antly fall within the provisions of the law, and
it is proposed tlint, the severity of punishment shall
in case of conviction, be hsreafter increased. The
agents of ctn. foreign Dower are at liberty to corn-
munieate to the proper au herities any information
which may justi'y the arreA or prosecutihn of an
offeeder, and here is no reason to doubt that the
law would be spontaneously put in force' if evi-
dence of guilt we' e procured ft om any other quer ter.
The difficulty lies in the disc ivory of evil Jaen
tins. Orsini was safe in Birmingham, because he
was-apparently an inoffensive foreigner. For the
same re icon he passed threugh 13,1;i:Ini with a
Itheneh passport, and residt.d in Paris until the op-
portunity ho desired occurred withent molestation
from the police.

(From the Doily cws.)

On the 28th Of August, 1802, Lord Hawkesbury,
in reply to an application on the part of the First
Consul,- relative to ref ugees,' Wrote : "Our Govern-
ment neither have ner want arty other protection
than what the laws of the country afford ; and
though they are willing and ready to give to every
foeeign. Government ail the -.protection against
offerict s of this na'ure which the principles of
their laws and constitution will permit, they never
can consent to new-mod-4 !heir laws, or to change
their co: at tution, to gratify the wishes of any
foreign power." And, again : " It is not his Ma-
jesty's intention to interfere in the manner i u which
the people or territories of Fr trice should he b ete-
vernetr; but he expects, on the ot,her hand, that
the French Government will not interfere in the
manner in wltichthe government of his dominions
is conducted, or call for a change iu those laws
with which his people are perfectly satisfied."
Such was the language of English sthtestneu more,
than half a century ago. We of the Liberal parry.
entertain feelings with regard to the Ministers of
the Oro:vn in 1802 which fall far short of idolatry ;
but we recognise in the words we have now quoted
the utterance of a right English spirit ; we syrupa.
thine with the sentiment expressed as ono of those
whicheommand the assent of all Englishmen, and
remind them that, however divided by party, what
they have in common far exceeds in value
,and
amount their pOints of difference; and we reverence
the irt:n who in the hour of danger. c tuld net only
speak thus, but _act as they spoke. If such, then,
be the estimate formed of Lord Hawkesbury's
manly assertion of English national iudept ndence
by those wire are on most subjects ho-z.tile to Li,.
policy, we cannot for a moment doubt that all Eng-
lishmen who still cling to the party of sthich he was
allea.der will be equally ardent in their advocacy of
the policy which he asserted. and acted upon. To
Lord Derby and the noblemen and gentlemen who
act. w'th him wo address this appeal. • '
This evening the House of Commons will enable
the people of England to judge hew far the noble
sense of national dignity and independence which
animated Lord Hawkestairy and his Colleaeues, is
inherited by those who now fill their places in on.
representative assembly. A M'nister wh-) has
traded more than any of his predecessors or con te -
poraries on noisy professions of z-sal for the national
honour, will this evening call upon tie House cif
Commons to change and new-model their lava to
gratify the wishes of a foreign power"—to sue mfr
to the call of a foreign Government "for a change
in those laws with which the people are perfectly
atisfied." If the House of Commons shall prove
sufficiently in-an-spirited and cowardly, ti caniply
with the request of the planet-stridken of
the Guildhall speech ; and if the people of England
,hall t tritely acquiesce in strch lacquey-like conduc
on the part of their representatives, from ths,tetto-
meet will date the huteiliatlon of Enghud—it,.
sidence from a free and first power into a secon-
dary and dependent kingdom.
Lord Palmerston has censented to lay up -n th
table of the House of Commons the application.
noun the French Government, in comp'ittnce with
which be seeks te tamrer with the laws of Englaild.

In reply to the question, whether he will produce
his answer at the fame time, be stafed that «no
answer had been sent." Lord Palmerston is vi`"-'
in his gielertion. He Luow th't nceanswec I; co''l`"l
return to such an unwerrautable application could
be other than damaging to his reputation if it,pre-
raised compliance, and ho therefore abstained from
committing himself in writing.
We are told—for we have not yet seen the De-
spatch of the French Government—ethat it is cour-
teous in language and reasonable in its representa-
tons. This is possible. But if its requests are
reqsenable, so much the more marked must be Lord
Palmer. ten's syeophantish eu:, erviency to the Em-
peror of the French, in, hastening to conciliate him
by doing what'it would have been most unreason-
able in his Majesty to ask. And as to the courtesy
of the language of the despatch, what boots the
politeness of any great man if he allows a rabble
of armed followers in his train, to threaten and in-
sult the person with whom he is remonstrating ?
One gentleman may, without compromising his
honour, listen to a frank and courteous request
for an explanation of something he has said or
done from another • but if the other is fol.:
lowed by a mob of servants, who indulge in
offensive and threatening language while the diS-
cussion is. going on, the ni,ra';ll of tue one from
whom ropararion is asked is shut up. We do not
see how the English Parliament can, consistently
with its self-respect, entertain any application from
the French Government relative to the refugees
among us after the addresses that have been al-
lowed to appear in the Moniteur. [t is true that
the friends of Napoleon 111. are extremely busy
attempting to explain away the publication of these
offensive addresses, both through the press arid in
private conversation, They vow and protest that
the publication has not been the act of the Empe-
ror; they allege that he is extremely annoyed by
it ; they lay the whole blame at the door of De
Morey, or Walewski, or Fould. It is not for us
to penetrate into the secret of the councils of the
French Government—we can only judge of them by
the results of the deliberations. Besides, we have
always understood that the Etnperor's authority is
supreme. Are we to understand that he who re-
fuses to be checked or controlled by representatives
of the French people, is checked and controlled by
the will of one or two private individuals ? The
Queen of England might without a blush say to
Napoleon 111., " My Imperial brother, I would
gladly gratify you in this matter ; but my Parlia-
ment will not consent." But can Napoleon 111.
say without a blush, " My Royal sister, I would
gladly abstain from ungentlemanly language, but
De Moray, Walewski, and Fould will not permit
me 1" We have heard of various constitutional
checks upon sovereigns. The action of the mo-
narchy of England is said to be regulated by Paella•
ment—that of Turkey by respect for the bow-
string. We now .learn that the action of the
monarchy of France is regulated by the inclinations
of MM. De Mutely, Walewski, and Fould. It too)
is a limited monarchy in its way.
But even though the dilatory plea could be got
over, it is not easy to see how Lord Palmerston'S
bill could be entertained. Our legislation regarding
aliens has hitherto had for its object our own in-
ternal security. To legislate regrding them with a
view to the security of foreigners not resident
among us, would be to introduce an entirely new
principle of legislation. There is no call upon us too
do so. Our laws are enacted to repress crime within
our own jurisdiction ; it is the business of other
States to enact such laws as are needed for the same
purpose in theirs. Our greatest lawyers tell us that
the laws of England aro already sufficiently power-
ful to deal wite that crime which Lord PaltnerStou
p:ofesses have more immediately in view. Oa a
question of law, the auth riiy of the Chief Justice
of the Queen's Bench rind his colleagues is certainly
worth far more than that of Lord. Palmerston.
Now, if tho law already gives power to punish a
crime, all additional legislation on the suluect must
be mischievous. We know by sad experience how
difficult it is to frame statutes so that they shall
exactly authorise what the lawgiver intends. Let
us be content with an effic.ent law as it stands ; if
we allow it to be modified or added to, something
may be unwittingly added which we shall have
cause to regret.
We are adjured from various quarters -to argue
this question temperately—without vehement et
vituperative language. We really have felt no
temptation to do otherwise. Notwithstanding the
addresses in the Moniteur, we can advocate the
ejt ction. of the application 'of the French Govern-
ment with as much urbanity es Sir Harry Wildair
beats Alderman Smuggler in the play, apologising
to him all the time for the disagreeable duty he has
to perform. If any ono wishes an example how to
conduct this delicate discussion he bas only to study
the proceedings iu the Town Council of Catubridg%
when- the motion for an address to the Emperor of
the French was rejected. Never was a great
national duty discharged with more excellent taste
and temper. Lord Palmerston and the House of
Commons may rest assured that the Town Counci
of Cambridge has spoken the sense of the nation.
Englishmen wish to oultivate a geed understanding
with the French people and their ruler; but Bug:
Tishman can manage their own affairs without
fereien interference. They will not submit to
insolence from the menials of a foreign prince. •

( Front the Morning Post )
We publish in another colurnu the despatch whilb
Lard Palmerston laid on the table of the Souse of
Commons on Saturday. We think every one will
be ready to acknowledge the moderation of its tone
and the force and candour of its statements. Wi;„
believe the Cabinet is now in possession of another
despatch, expressing the regret of the French 431°;
vernment at the publication in the Moniteur
some of the late addresses from the army. To thee!
addresses many have the more readily attributed "
talse importance, from the fact that they have for:
rotten that addreses from. the army, as well a;
from municipalities, corporate bodies, &c., &c., are
invariably presented in France on .occasions
lar to the recent attempt. To prove this we het,
but to open the pages. of the M niteur at the der
of the "Infernal Machine," when the l!fe of we
First Consul was aimed at ; or at the date e,
Fiesehi's attack on Louis Philippe, to see that for tl-0
recent addresses there is are le precedent. Arn°q
some three or four hundred there have been three
containing objectionable phrases from the pens °l3l'
hot-headed colonels, which have inadvertently be
°
printed in the non-official columns of the Moniteol.'
The regret of the French Government at this hoe,
.we repeat, been fully expressed, and cannot fail to
be cords slay accepted.
era
We are confident that the statement which tr.
Palmerton will make to-night in introducing t--
new.bill will at once carry conviction, and th.:t„
opposition will be offered to a measure which
dicates our own good feeling and the justice of our
legislation quite a much es it promotes the securPi.
of our neighb curs.
But there exists a still stronger claim. The p
lie will, no doubt, he surprised to learn that one
the principals in the late crime is an Eeglishralo
His name is Thonias Allsop, an ex-member of toe
Stock Exchange. Tie instruments of the crime
have all been made to order in England, and t
whole scheme and conspiracy h ts been hatched an
matured in this country. Is it not time, then, rust
Engl,sh laws should be framed for the punishme4;
of such atrocities ? We do not for a moment be
tate to reiterate our belief that the bill will be car-
ried through all its stages without a division.

DEATH OF AN OLD COMEDIAN.—Mr. john Brooke'
m ra genermly kno-wn as "Doctor Brooks," formtrl_t
monber of the 0 ympio company-, under the late Dar'
aeorge Wild, died labt Thutida,y, in King's College,
Hospital. The d(,ceased was a man of no mean talent !, ,;"
Att aaor, but an unfortunate propensity to drink rend, ir
him f..a. many years incapable of following his profession
In this lamentable. state he was supported by 11.
week lystipend, allowed him by his wife out of her Hai-
m ang.

BIRTHS.
ELLAwr-On the Bth inst., at Croydon, the wife of Mr. E11211)1'
of Queen-street, Cheipside, solicitor, of a Bon. ,
MILES—On the 6th inst., at 15, Upper Hamilton-terrao.,
wife of F`rederick Mies, Erg., or o, daughter.
lrircuLt —On the 6th h. ut , the wife of C. J. Es 4.,
Queen's-road, Regent'i-park. #l, of
Qum—On the 15th inst., at 116, Eaton-square, the 0'
the Hon, W. H. Wyndham Quin, of a daughter.

MAARIAGES.
ington,
thus --Powm—On the 4th inst , at St. Nary, 14.„e7,2011
John Frederick, the eldeA son. of J. M. Gibbs, -c's4..„'f bet
Itegt. to Julia Ann, daughter of J. Powell, ESCI*, ;;;gtolY
Majesty's Court of Probate, and South-place, Kenn'--
park,
, ,itheut:
PARSONS--On-011 the 6th lest at St. Botom.-...-0 ae
Aldersgate, Mr. Joseph Parsons,- of Birmingham,
Eliza, Bevan, of the Closa, Salisbury, Wilts.

DEATHS, 00111.
CAMPBELL—On the 4th iust. , Thomas Campbell, F,fig,'
tor, of Great arlboro.
CHICHESTEI6R , On the M
4th inst.,ugh-street whilst on a visit, at 3-, 4° Ot
park-gardens, the Rey. Chao. Chichester, rector of
Saffols, aged 61.
OGLE—On the Ist inst., Nathaniel Ogle, Esq,.,
aged 63. et
PERRY— On the 6th inst., Mr. Edward Perry, of Afilreiltra,
Hackney, and 7, BishoPsgate-street without, aged ';.0,0e-
RZEVE —On the sth inst., at his residence, in Laneuog..,
terrace, London fields, Hackney, William Reeve,
Paymaster, R.N., aged 73. ~„cres"
R-MBIULT -On the 4th and sth inst., at 29, St. 3,lar'''. rant
cent, Regent's-1 ark, Harriet and Stephen FrAncis,
children of E. F. Rimbault, LL.D. mood,
TaaNEß—On the sth List., at the Vicarage, Lower Nor
the Rev. Charles Turner, aged 64.

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