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THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1835.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

It would be amusing and not uninstructive to make
a collection of the occasiois upon which Heaven has
been thanked for a House of Lords. In every in-
stance it would be found that some impolitic, unjust,

or nefarious practice was concerned. In turning over
the leaves of Boswell's Johnson, we were struck by a

passage in praise of the wisdom and independence of
the House of Lords, to the same effect, and about as
well merited, as the commendations in the Times,
Post, and Standard, for the last three months. Re-
ferring to an argument of Johnson, in favour of a
negro 's claim to his liberty in the British Isles, Bos-
well writes I record Dr. Johnson's argument fairly
upon this particular case ; where, perhaps, he was in
the right. But I beg leave to enter my most solemn
protest against his general doctrine with respect to the
Slave Trade. For I will resolutely say, that his un-
favourable notion of it was owing to prejudice, and
imperfect or false information. The wild and dan-
gerous attempt which has for some time been per-
sisted in to obtain an Act of our Legislature to abolish
so very important and necessary a brand). of commer-
cial interest must have been crushed at once, had not
the insignificance of the zealots who vainly took the
lead in it made the vast body of planters, merchants,
and others, whose immense properties are involved in
that trade, reasonably enough suppose that there
could be no danger. The encouragement which the
attempt has received excites my wonder and indigna-
tion ; and though some men of superior abilities have
supported it, whether for a love of temporary popula-
rity when prosperous, or a love of General ,mischief
when desperate, my opinion is unshaken. To abolish
a status whichin all ages God has sanctioned, and may
has continued, =rad not only be robbery to an innu7
Inerable class of our jellozv-subjects, but it would be
extreme cruelty to the 4frican savages, a portion of
whom it saves from massacre. or intolerable bondage in
their own country, and introduces into a much happier
state of life ; especially now, when their passage to the
West Indies, and,their treatment there, is humanely,
regulated. To abolish that trade would be to
Shot the gates of mercy on mankind.'
Whatever may have passed elsewhere concerning it,
the House of Lords is wise and independent
Intaminatis fulget honeribus
Nec sumit nut ponit secures
Arbit.rio popularis aurte."
It appears marvellous now that any man of com-
mon sense and common humanity could have put forth
these weak pretences for the worst barbarity, and with
as much warmth as. if the holiest of causes were at
stake ; and half a century hence posterity will wonder
as much at the present defence of Odious abuses which
they will have seen swept away, as we in our time
have seen the abolition of the slave trade and eman-
cipation of the negro regarded with such horror by
Boswell, as disturbing a status sanctioned by God,
and robbery to man. All these works in their time
are denounced, as we. see above, as " wild and dan-
prows attempts," prompted by ".a love of temporary
popularity," et'' a love of general mischief;" and against
the success of such righteous enterprises all reliance is
placed, " whatever may have passed elsewhere con'-
cerninfr it," in the wisdom and independence of -the
Lords I We must observe, by the way, on the perfect
understanding which Boswell hail of the principles and
Avorkil:g of the Constitution, as it existed before our
Reform Bill. He speaks of corruption as the anti-
attrition of the great machine, with the simplicity and
frankness with which the French writers of memoirs of
the age cf Louis XIV. and the Regency mention the
in-deuce of the immoralities. In opposition to John-
son's argument for taxing the American colonies by
the power of the sword, Boswell- insisted that America
might be very well governed, and made to yield sufli-
cient revenue, by the means of " bill:Ile:re (the italics
are the author's) as exemplified in Ireland, while the
people might be pleased with the ii:zagination,9f their
• participating of the British Constitution, by ha:.ing
a body of representatives withortt whose consent
money could not he exacted from them." With the
same shrewd view, the expedient of a Parliament an
t lie then E:ritish inailel was reeommended conic few
Years ago to the ney of Algiers. In the progress of civi-
lization cheating is funnel better than for cc, and fraud has
. its reign till public intelligence shakes it off. Our
people ,will bear a vast pressure of abuse, under the
~;anction of custom ; but the lesson of experience.
tough late, comes at last. The political character of
John Bull is, perhaps, best illustrated :n the story of a
worthy resident in a bad neighbourhood, who observe:l
to a friend, " Though I hate moving, three being Os
Poor Richard says) nearly as bad as a fire, I am
about to change my quartets ; for I have been knocked
down and robbed regularly every night of my life for
the last three years, and now I really begin to think
that it is high time to move into an honester neigh-
bourhood ; and it cannot be denied but I have given'
this a fair trial." John Bull bears a long series of
robbery, but the hour of resolution to change comes at
last. Johnson's view of the House of Commons.
broached in a conversation with Lord Newhaven, is
curious, and may be adopted by some of the Tories of
the present day. He observed, " The House of Com-
mons Was originally not a privilege of the people, but
a check for the Crown on the House of Lords. I re-
member Henry VIII. wanted them to do something ;
they hesitated in the morning, but did it in the after-
moon ; he told them, It is well you did, or half your
'eads should have been upon Temple-bar.' But the
House of Commons is now no longer under the power
of the Crown, and therefore must be bribed." Thus
bribery was ever the great Tory specific.—Morning
Chronicle.

Unquestionably the object of prison discipline is to
prevent as well as to punish crime—in other words, I
to punish crime already committed, in a manner most
likely to deter others from the commission of similar
crime. In the infancy of legislation the summary
mode was thought the best, and the impatience of men
who had not yet learned to reason inflicted death on
every criminal. It was soon found, however, that this
off-hand system was not, so expeditious as it was deci-
sive ; criminals seemed to grow under the, axe and the
gallows ; and 2,000 men executed in one year did not
frighten 4,000 men in another from qualifying them-
:selves for the same fatal termination of their career.
The legislators of a succeeding age began at last.
to be impressed, though slowly, with the conviction
that extreme severity was not a perfect check ; and
the Ministers of Elizabeth adopted a milder course,
and instead of putting to death 2,000 felons a year,
reduced the number of legal victims to less than
400 a year. Crime was not found to multiply under
;the milder system, neither was it much diminished.
But the offences committed were marked by less
atrocity: that ferocious spirit which was engendered
by the knowledge that the man who stole a handker-
.chief would be inexorably visited with the same fate as
tthe man who murdered his father, became softened,
when it was found that there were degrees of punish-
ment, as well as degrees of guilt. Still the aggregate
of criminals was scarcely less, though the. desperate
burglar and the highway robber were succeeded by
the petty shoplifter and the sneaking pickpocket. As
.these offences, though not of so alarming character as
those of a former age, are yet most mischievous and
aril inconvenient, the makers of law and the adminis-
trators of law are as busy as ever to punish or prevent
the new modes of delinquency. Magistrates and
gaolers, orators and writers, are incessantly occupied
in the discussion or application of various schemes of
prison discipline. Preventive measures, coercive mea-
sures, remedial measures—the working system, the si•
lent system—good feeding, low feeding, all succeed
each other—each plan has its day, makes a to-
lerable sensation during its short existence, and then
gives place to some other plan promulgated with
equal confidence, and abandoned with equal in-
diff '?,rence. Among the newest of the various fashions
and patent expedients for diminishing crime is one,
whic•lm, in spite of its name, is making, a considerable
noise in the world : it is called " the silent . system,"
and is a sort of modification of Howard's solitary con-
finer:lent. It is borrowed from our brethren across the
Atlantic, Soho being the greatest talkers have naturally
co.nsickred a sentence of " silence". a very severe one :
it 1, as for a reason probably not very dissimilar become
a pr, Idigious favourite with the French, who are the
next greatest talkers in the world. In order that. our
reader, % "nay understand it, we shall quote a description

of it from a pamphlet just published, entitled A Letter
to the Duke of Richmond by a County Magistrate:—.
" A description of the system is summed up in its title.
'lt consists in the rigorous maintenance of silence among
the prisoners, except when spoken to by an officer, from the
moment they enter the prison to the moment of their libe-
ration. Each rises, washes, works, goes to the chapel, to
his meals, to exercise, and to bed, in the midst of his fellow-
prisoners, without a word of communication ; and, where
the system is thoroughly worked out, without exchanging a
look beyond what is absolutely unavoidable. Each indivi-
dual is thus isolated amidst numbers, in regard to moral and
social communication, as much as if alone. Mutual conta-
mination is prevented ; and in the silence of the place, and
of his own thoughts, the prisoner is left to the undisturbed
impression of the moral influences acting upon him through
the medium of personal restraint—regularity of hours and
of employments—of food and rest—of cleanliness and order
—of religious instruction, reading, and worship.
" The means by which the silent system is executed are
these :—The employment of a certain number, according to
circumstances, of the best-conducted prisoners as wardsmen
or monitors, to prevent, or detect and report, the slightest
infringement of the- rule of silence among the prisoners.
Every yard, workroom, eating-place, and sleeping-room is
open to the inspection of the officers of the prison, from
situations commanding a view of every individual, without
the inspector being perceived ; the wardsmen and.prisoners
being, consequently, unaware at what moment the supe-
rior eye is upon them, or that it is not always so. The
smallest infraction of the rules is thus sure of detection.
Immediate punishments follow, consisting for first and
slight offences, of prolonged labour, or deprivation of a
meal ; for repeated offences, of solitary confinement ; in
extreme cases, the further punishment authorized by the
Gaol Act."
That the writer of the pamphlet is a conscientious
man we have no reason- to doubt ; that he i 3 a bene-
volent man we are not unwilling to
,believe, because his
general tone where his theory is not in question is
rational and considerate ; nor do we in one sense dis-
pute the efficacy of his plan. It would, as he says, terrify
even the oldest offenders ; it would do more, though he
does not suspect it—it would unseat the reason of nine
out of every ten prisoners ; some would be driven
into moping fatuity, others into desperate madness.
This prison-trappism would in fact be as severe as the
old Draconian system of death for every offence : but
in.our minds it would be less justifiable. Society even
in its least. civilized state can hardly sanction the de-
struction of the mind of man, or recognize madness as
a proper species of remedial discipline. The drop of
water falling momentarily on the head of the victim of
the Inquisition has always been considered the most
savage and demoniac invention of that frighful tyranny,
because its result was madness. All observers of hu-
man character must see that the tendency of the " si-
lent system" is to produce precisely the same effects.
And yet the worthy but credulous writer of the pamph-
let speaks of in the following terms :—" Old offenders
have found its rules intolerably severe." No doubt
but then follows the following exquisite piece of sim-
plicity—we were going to call it humbug :
"First, offenders, as yet uninitiated in crime, and not lost
to moral sensibility, have expressed their grateful sense of a
system of management which has saved them from the
depraved language of their fellow-prisoners, and the in-
struction in criminal arts, for which our gaols have been
among the worst schools. And individuals have gone back
to their families, accounting it, in the language of one,
the best job in their lives,' to have been under the salu-
tary influence of a system, which, with its accompaniment
of religious instruction, has proved effectual for the refor-
mation of their characters."
After stating that the system pro:luces the stillness
of the grave, the author luxuriates in the followiiT,
exulting description, with which we shall close our
extracts: _ _

" But no partial observance of the system, it must be
mitted, will accomplish the object in view. Silence, ob-
served as far as regards order in a prison, has -long been an
established regulation in various Houses of Correction, and
along with it the training of the young and inexperienced
prisoners, by practised criminals, in the more advanced stages
of crime, has been proceeding unchecked. But this is a
quite different thing from the silence system as now en-
forced for, according to this system, as already stated,
every individual, though working, walking, and eatinz in
company with his fellow"prisoners, is as much isolated as
regards communication with them as if he were alone ; no
spoken communication can take place among them. Com-
munication by signs, which persons familiar with the inge-
nuity of prisoners have supposed Would be substituted fm
speech, has been attempted, detected, and, by the vigilaul
application of the plan, prevented as completely as commu-
nication by word of month. At Wakefield,
ward,' when uncecupied, or moving, is as strict a rule
silence itself ; no eye is suffered to wander ; and prisoners
may be (the keeper remarked) for a length of time, within
two or three of each other in the lines in which they walk,
work, or eat; without becoming acquainted with each
other's persons."
. Nobody will suspect us of any maudlin sympathy
with the criminal pests of society, or of any wish
to
withhold from proved offences that degree of punish-
ment which may at once vindicate the law, and terrify
others into an observance of it. Though we. respect
the motives, we dissent from the views of those who
would make a gaol a place of comfort, and thus afford
a premium for delinquency : but while we wish every
prison to be an object of dread, and every culprit to
be subjected to such a course of discipline as may
work in him the only penitence of which most crimi-
nals are capable—a sincere sorrow that he has incurred
a severe penalty, with a resolution to amend his life in
order not to be visited again with the same privations
or suffering—yet we would not have Newgate con-
verted into Bedlam, with the additional inconvenience,
that in the greater number of cases the lunatic Would
be sent out into the world again. Under any system
a thief seldom comes out of gaol better than he went
in ; but if he comes out invested also with the dan-
gerous attributes of insanity, it will be like letting wild
beasts loose to ravage and destroy. But we confess
we do not anticipate that the possible mischief will be
incurred ; indeed, if we can form any judgment, we
should say that this novel expedient will be even more
short-lived than most of his ingenious predecessors,
and will very probably expire before the magistrates
who patronize it have killed the last partridge of the
present season. Before the next Ist of September our
worthy county magistrate will, probably have a bran-
new prison7system concurrently with his new " Man-
ton."—Tinzes.
We last October, during the time of the revision of
the lists of voters for Members of Parliament, ob-
served, " that too many of the Learned Gentlemen
(Revising Barristers), have appeared to think that it
was their duty to insist upon the most strict observance
of all, even the smallest technicalities, instead of, by
a liberal and common-sense construction of the Act,
assisting the overseers in amending their lists ; and, in-
stead of endeavouring to ,rectify errors, have-been too
much disposed to read long lectures on the non-ob-
servance of some, in fact, most trivial informality."
These remarks are again pressed upon our notice by
. reading the report of the proceedings before the Revis-
ing Barristers for the City. of London, as reported in
our paper of yesterday. On the occasion in question
both the Learned Gentlemen are said to have refused
to take the lists from the overseers of many parishes,
on the ground that they were not the original lists. Now,
assuming from the doubtful wording of the Act that it is
clear that the overseers in cities and boroughs are
bound to deliver to the Barristers in Court the original
lists, does it not occur to these Learned Gentlemen that
a printed list may be the original list adopted, and
acknowledged and signed by the overseers as such ?
Would the Learned Gentlemen contend that the first
rough copy mis-spelt perchance, worse-written, and
hardly legible by the luckless scribe himself, never,
perhaps, signed by him, or intended. to be anything
more than a direction to his hired amanuensis, or
printer, to make out the list from, is the original list
contemplated by the- Act? And that this, is what
really does and must necessarily take place in nine
cases out of ten we are aware, and we should have sup-
posed few persons could have been ignorant of. With
.as much show of reason, it might be contended that a
mere rough draft or first writing of a lease or deed was
the original, because first committed to writing as the
foundation whereon to make the instrument. Thus in
the case contemplated, the overseer, in many instances
so bad a penman that his lists would be illegible were
he to take upon himself to write them out himself,
makes a species of rough copy for the sake of collec-
ting together his materials, and of giving instruc-
tions for the making out of the document which he
intends to acknowledge as his list. As the overseers
stated on Monday—when they have got their list
either printed or written out—why the rough sketch
or foul copy is thrown away. Does Dot this prove

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what such first copy (not original list,) was meant
for ? This, it should be borne in mind, is not a
case where it is suggested that the overseers have first
acknowledged and published one list, and now wish to
adopt another. In nine cases out of ten the course
adopted by the overseers alluded to appears to us not
only the most convenient for all parties concerned, but
almost in some cases necessary for the despatch of bu-
siness, and, as far as the legality of it is concerned,
we cannot doubt. The Learned Gentleman, however,
stated, that if the disjecta rnembra of these rough
copies, could not be found at the printer's or .else-
where, they would reconsider their decision, and when
they do so, upon a little consideration of the inconve-
niences, to say nothing of the incorrectness of their
first judgment, we can pretty well prognosticate which
way they will decide. We know nothing of the two
Learned Gentlemen alluded to, and beg leave to assure
them that we make these remarks without meaning the
slightest disrespect towards them ; but as the conse-
quences of such a decision would be productive, we
think, of great inconvenience, and would also tend very
much to delay the progress of business, at a season
when, from all accounts, there will be real and sub-
stantial points upon the numerous objections to be
decided, we have thought right thus to call attention
generally to the subject.— orn ing Herald..
It is one of the most melancholy signs of the times
that a proposal so rational and so pious as that of the
Rev. Hartwell Home, for a religious celebration of the
approaching centenary of the printing of the first com-
plete Bible in the English language, should be met by
the friends and supporters of the present Administra-
tion, as if they felt conscious of danger to the political
power of their patrons from the mere fact of any con-
siderable portion of the people of Great Britain che-
rishing and pouring forth a sentiment of gratitude to
the Supreme Giver of all Good, for the inestimable
blessing of the sacred volume rendered to them in a
language which they can understand. We feel that
it is not within our province to attempt to convince
any of our fellow-subjects of the duty of paying special
honour to so important an epoch in the history of our
country ; for those who do not acknowledge and fulfil
the obligation with instinctive and cheerful alacrity,
who are not eager upon such an occasion to offer the
thanksgiving of humble and grateful hearts, must be
far beyond the reach of any argument or persuasion
which it would become us to employ. We do not
venture to aspire to the honourable and exalted duty
of making men Christians and 'Pr:otestants who are
not so. We speak to those who are, or whom we
suppose to be, Christians and Protestants already ;
and to such auditors it is surely unnecessary to address
any argument with a view to show that the first publi-
cation of the :Bible in the language of our country,
and in print, is an event which ought conStantly to be
held in grateful and pious recollection, and that, if it
were only for the sake of cultivating this habitual feel-
ing of affectionate and reverential gratitude, such an
event ought at particular seasons to be especially
commemorated. Ail that can be necessary m ad-
dressing Protestants, is to intimate that the 4th of
October, 1505, was the day on which a complete
Bible first existed in our native tongue, and that the
third Sunday from this time will be the 4th of Octo-
ber, 1835, tine third centenary of this great and
truly important occurrence. Is it not natural that
every man who values the sacred oracles, should on
that day feel a warmer glow of gratitude to Divine
Providence for time advantages which this inestimable
gift has conferred upon himself and his country ? And
is it not most fit and just that the general sentiment
of a ration should find some means of social and pub-
lic expression ? Or will it be contended that a reli-
gious nation should stifle the expression of its gra-
titude to Heaven for a signal mark of favour, lest
offence, perchance, be taken to a political party, whose
deepest -disgrace and misfortune it is to be incapable of
sympathising in so just, so sacred, a feeling. Our
Ministerial contemporaries attempt by clumsy sophis-
try and effective ridicule to prevent the intended cele-
bration ; hut their efforts are only sweessful in con-
vincing the world that reverence for the Bible, and a
just
.appreciation of its value, are incompatible
with the support of an Administration like the pre-
sent; of which Mr.' O'Connell is the substantial prop,
and the true leader. There is revolting impiety
in the recourse to ridicule upon such a subject, and
those who oppose, and, if their power were equal to
their will, which fortunately it is not, would prevent
the commemoration, would willingly avoid the scandal
of such impiety, but they feel that they must do something
with a view to abate the rising Protestant feeling of the
country ; and, -as they arc destitute of argument for the
purpose, they resort to what may be very properly deno-
minated very vapid and vulgar attempts at wit. Such
exhibitions are disgraceful to their authors, but still
more disgraceful to the Administration for whose in-
terest they are employed. The celebration of such an
event as the printing of the first edition of the British
Bible, if all England took part in it, could never, it is
certain, have done the Ministry so much harm as the
attempt, the unsuccessful attempt, on the part of their
friends to deprecate and interrupt that national effusion
of gratitude and piety. But for this, it could never
have been so clearly discovered as it is at the present
moment, that the manifestation of a genuine and power-
ful Protestant feeling in the country would be the cer-
tain means of depriving Ministers of those places and
that power which they cherish above all things.
But for this, which has all the effect and validity
of a voluntary confession, eit could never have been
know so certainly that the present Ministers arc
the enemies of Protestantism, and that they arc aware
how incumbent it is upon all the true friends
of Protestantism to be the determined and persevering
opponents of the present Ministers. The spirit dis-
closed upon this occasion by the organs of the Admi-
nistration must convince the world that, whatever pro-
fessions his Majesty's Ministers may think it prudent
to make in Parliament, the interests of Protestantism
and their interests are diametrically opposed, and that
to promote and preserve the latter, the interests of Pro-
testantism are to be abandoned and denounced without
the slightest hesitation. The language employed upon
this occasion by the Ministerial tools is enough to con-
vince every clergyman of the Church of England, and
every conscientious Protestant Minister, of whatever
sect, that those who would discourage and prevent, if
possible, the meditated religious Jubilee, in honour of
the re-opening of the Bible to the people at large,
ought to be strenuously resisted—that all they advise
in this or any other matter connected with religion,
should be eschewed—and that all they would pre-
vent, ought to be diligently and eagerly -carried into
effect. We sincerely hope that the heads of the
Church will fully sympathise With the feelings, and
sustain the energies of the inferior Clergy, and that
entire harmony will prevail on an occasion equally in-
teresting to all between the congregations of the Estab-
lished Church and every class of Protestant Disien-
ittile
e:rsNr%,,ehsi may
not oc tn,t
the
a single
throughout u4g
thilo of Gpolarcectaoeb o
ter, Britainf and Ireland,
Porloeteis)tiaesnstinwoorship
con-
ferred on this nation three hundred years previously
will will not be commemorated by a suitable manifestation
of pious gratitude. That this duty has been twice
neglected is certainly not, as the Ministerial writers
pretend, a reason why it should be neglected for
the third time. As .little force is there in the cavils
by which they would depreciate the value of the
first printed English Bible, because manuscript
Bibles in the English language were previously in
existence, and because the first printed Biblecon-
con-
tained errors which were corrected in subsequent
editions. It will surely not be disputed that the
first printed Bible was as accurate as the pre-
existing manuscripts, or that the comparatively easy
and cheap multiplication of copies by the application
of the art of printing, was an incalculable gain to the
cause of religious truth ? And is it not a disinge-
nuous .cavil to speak of the more perfect translation
which was subsequently made, without acknowledging
vi
ene ofe,
the strong probability that the extensive circulation
the printed volume was, in the hands of Providence,
one of the chief causes of the improved translation ?
The objectionsi amount in effect only to this, that Co-
verdale s Bible, being the first printed copy of the sa-
cred volume in the English language, was preceded by
the manuscricpt from which it was printed, and led the
way to subsequent improvements and corrections
of the firstrrectionsofthe
text, circumstances which may be alleged
printed edition, we believe, of every work, certainly of

every translated work. Such reasoning can establish
nothing, but that the understanding of its author is ob-
tuse, and the object for which it is advanced crooked.

—Morning Post.
A pamphlet on real and rational Reform in the
Church of England has just been published,, by the
Rev. J. G. Lloyd. From the vigorous and dashing
spirit of the style, we should have supposed the
author to have written stans pede in uno, had he not
informed us that it was done lying on a sofa, over a
cup of coffee. However, a genuine and energetic spirit
of Reform and Religion animates the whole essay, and
even the most moderate of honest politicians can offer
no tenable objection to the positions which 'he has
taken. The preaching of certain parsons on politics,
instead of religion, is thus admirably commented on :
" The prostitution of the Protestant pulpit to political
purposes, is'in my opinion, as a Christian, a dreadful dese-
cration of the temple of the God of Peace, who enableth
men to be of one mind in a house. I will not, I dare
trust myself, to express my feelings on this awful subject.
When the minds of the congregations are, or ought to be,
fixed upon heaven and holiness, upon God, his mercies, and
his judgments, are the selected ministers and stewards of
his mysteries,—wearing, too, perhaps, the symbol of the
ministry of the Apostles themselves, the long-looked for and
tco dearly purchased lawn,—to drag them down from. the
contemplation of things eternal relating to that immortal
part which never dies, to the decision of whether Lord J.
Russell or Mr. Parker are to sit in the National Assem-
bly, and mend or make laws, which themselves and our-
selves must soon perish, for few and evil are the days of the
best and oldest of us."
A hope is next expressed that some means may be
adopted to prevent the hereditary Mob from exposing
themselves and the country which tolerates them to
the ridicule and contempt of foreigners, and that HE
who honoured the Lords by accepting a peerage, and
who is not only saving but adorning his country by
his talents and exertions, may long remain unfettered
by the harness of Downing-street. His greatest ene-
my, must admit the justice of this tribute to Lord
Brougham. The manner in which pamphleteering
and preaching is patronised amongst the politico-
religious party is thus ably exposed :
" Suppose the Minister to want a pamphlet on any pro-
fessional subject—say AGAINST the Catholics—they find a
very clever man, possessing more talent and turbulence than
Christian charity and independence. He writes so good
a pamphlet that our legislators treat it as our barristers do
their briefs. What reward do they give this professional
political pamphleteer? A Deanery, say Chester, if it be
vacant, it is a good and proverbial stepping-stone."
" ..Again, suppose the Minister, that able dispenser of
those very convincing arguments called Canons' Deaneries,
and Bishopricks, to want another pamphlet, say in FA-
VOUR of the Catholics, suppose the same secular Minister
applying to the very same clerical Minister to reply to his
own pamphlet, suppcise his doing so, what reward had he—
in this world I mean If any Bishoprick was vacant, say
Exeter for instance, he would probably receive it."
Does the author allude to Phillpotts ? No, no
he does but jest ; "poison in jest.' " The story is
extant," and written, if not in very choice Italian, in
very plain English. The writer naturally expresses
his horror of allowing such a man, if such there be,
" to put his guilty hands on the heads of innocent
children." The conduct of the Bishops, in absenting
themselves from their spiritual duties ; the movie of
election, vesting the " recommendation" in the Crown—
And the necessity, inevitable necessity, of alteration in
he ~stem—is commented on with eloquence, energy,

and effect.
" Gold firs', gold last, gold midst, and gold without end,"

appears to be the motto, end, and aim of the Ministets
of the Established Church. On this point the author
adduces a case, not unusual, though miquitou3, con-
nected with the promotion of the clergyman who offi-
ciated at Peterleo. On the question of supporting
clergymen by voluntary contributions, the writer ap-
pears to s2crifice justice to expediency ; however, in
regard to the practicability of such
.a system, he need
only look to Ireland for conviction. In reply to the
assertion of the Bishop of London, " We want more
churches and more clergymen," the author most respect-
fully inquires from what premises his Grace has drawn
such a conclusion, as, in his opinion, its converse might
be drawn " from empty churches and unemployed
clerzymen."—Morning Adertiser.

POLICE IN'T'ELLIGENCE.

BOW-STREET.

Yesterday, an elderly man, who had the appearance of
having seen better clays, and who gave his name William
Harding, was charged with obtaining 200 pens from Messrs.
Terry, wholesale stationers, Shoe-lane, Fleet-street, by
false pretences.
It appeared that the prisoner had, formerly been in the
occasional employment of Messrs. Wrixon, eminent solici-
tors, in Jewry-street, Aldgate, as a hackney miter, and on
the 9th of July last, he went to Messrs. Terry, with a note
signed as by the senior partner of the house of Wrixon and
Co., ordering 200 pens. The clerk at Terry's knowing the
firm of Messrs. Wrixon to be of the highest respectability,
although they were not customers, at once sent the pens.
On a subsequent day, the prisoner called again at Terry's
with a similar order, and obtained the same quantity of
pens. On Sunday evening last, the prisoner 'accosted Po•
licemun No. 50, F, whom he had formerly known, and
said, .6 I want to speak with you." The constable said—
" Why, Harding, I have not seen you for some time, what
have you been doing with yourself? " The prisoner re-
plied that he had come for the purpose of giving himself
up, having committed a fraud upon Messrs. Terry, in Shoe-
lane, and adding that he could not keep out of the way any

longer. _
The prisoner had nothing to say, and was remanded
until Saturday.

Q UEEN-SQUARE.
Yesterday Susannah Pardell (who was represented to be
a respectable married female) and Thon:as Smith, an el-4
derly man, were brought up in custody before Mr. WHITE,
charged with taking off a quantity of fixtures from the
house occupied by the female prisoner, and disposing of
the same.
Mr. Daniel Allen stated that a short time back he let a
house to the prisoner and her husband, situated at No. 34,
Lambeth-square, New-cut ; upon which occasion he (wit-
ness) supplied the house with appropriate fixtures, consist-
ing of kitch6n-ranges, stoves, copper, and shelves. A few
days ago he received information that the articles in ques-
tion were sold to a broker by the female prisoner. On
ascertainiug this to be correct he caused her to be appre-
hended, as well as the prisoner Smith, from the circum-
stance of his being with her at the different times she sold
the property.
A respectably-dressed man here stated that he had
known Mrs. Pardell for a number of years. She had been
very well off, and was respectably connected.
John Munting, a broker, of 39, Calcroft-terrace, Lam-
beth, stated that he purchased the fixtures of the female
prisoner, she stating that they were her property, and had
paid 14/. for them. Smith was with her at the t►me.
From an inquiry made by the Magistrate, it appeared
that the husband of Pardell was in prison for debt.
The female prisoner, who appeared affected at her situa-
tion, stated that she considered the fixtures her husband's
property. She disposed of them on account of distress.
Both prisoners were remanded until Tuesday next.