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almost all sorts of serious political offences; and perfluous revenues of the Bishops, the Catholic
even among ourselves, at this day, the offence clergy must have a fair stipend, and the poor of all
of counterfeiting a shilling is dignified wi,h the communions must have theirs. An arrangement o'
name of high treason by a fiction of lew, this description, therefore, would differ erseroiany
which considers it a usurpation of the King's from a eeepereeedion of tithe, which is commonly on.
prerogative, instead of being what it in reality , deremod to mean a change in the nature, but not in
i,s—a fraud live the public. But, if the Fretidi the amount, of the income set apart for the Chute-Th.
cotifirie their capital punishments, at reeeent, to A land-tax, payable in the, ciret :cis ante, and di-
e/dirtier and 'reason (though the beet rreat convic- reedy by the preptienr, has long appeared to us the
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Lion for treason was not followed by death), they most eyeedient substitute for the odious and vexa-
wilt have advanced an almost immeasurable distance tiolis system above referred to ; and by enacting
before us in the adaptation of rh!ir system of cri- that it should likewise embrace a seittble peovision
spinal jorisprudienee to the principleete* Morality and for the Catholic priettheed, As well at far the ge-
thee demands of civilization. envier our Whig Mi- neral eduestier, Mid paßial relief of the poor, the
esiseers---men trained it.. the school of the en- tax itedf, howev'e'r it i'aight be really borne by tie
Eetehtened Romilly-.two criminals are ordered for tenantry ib .&nmillion with the landlord, would corn-
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eixcution on Monday next : one for eyeitkeyeeathg, mand the 'cheerful assent and support of an unani-
eind the other for stealing lettert from the Post- mous people. The different condition o property
office. Neither in France, hoe any country of in towns, as compared with :he -ouritry districts,
Europe, nor even in America, would thole offenders would suggest, t f bourse, a separate asst ssmen•, so
be punished with the doom which is inflicted upon far as they were concerned,—Tintcs.
the murderer. Is this an 4:"..rperintent also to bring Our Paper to-day contains a long trial, in which
back the almost obsolete code, which profusely shed we bear a prominent part as the oleiett of attaele ;
ldood for offences against property, iete sanguinary and we suppose that our assailant eel! nth 'noW, at
action once more ? The pubk ought to raise their least, complain that we hatee 'ti..eeted him unfairly in voice against it. They ought not, at least, to fall
the report which eve-:,side given of his speech to the
behind their French neighbours or their American
brethren in t Jury. Ve-e shall not add to the great space which
he enlightened and humane reptigearrce the trial occupies by any lengthened remarks here,
to the wanton and useless sheddieg cf hereto,
bl but we will insert a word or too whirls mest iheure
blood, We call it useless as well a 9 ie.:Moral and our moral acquittal. The oaregraPh published in
criminal, because there is no punishment 80 inefficient this journal, fereeieee; the subject of action, was in-
fo- the proleetcon 'of property- as the destructi,n „f
sette! its the ordinary way of making up a Paper,
life, as the whole history of out sanguinary laws with no feeling whatever of enmity or nrniiy. Why,
proves. We shalt here adopt the sentimeete ex-
then, was not the contradiction copied also fret the
pressed !most this important subject ie An Evening RI,
which the. I . ii, i. was taken
me Paper from .met A ion . Journal, the English C hronicis!, as l'ollow :
We have entetileed, and find that the contradic-
IntlVir lest publication attrcared the Reccrder's Report, tion ail
'without comment, but it Is well worthy of the notice which i .pare:;, in that Paper, but in the smallest pos-
eve feel ourselves compelled to bestow upon it. Ocr readers -
sile type, and without arty mark or heading to
rect our notice to it. It is in a letter!. we observe,
di-
will have stem from that report that thirty-five persons,
• cipitaliy convicted under our sanguinary laws at the signed "G. Curran. 74 Neither the plaintiff nor any
ID-nember and January 'Sessitriti Of the Old Bliley, were other person eVtreailed our attention to it. Indeed, if
reported to the King in Council, and that his Majesty toes wt had seen it, we could scarcely have published it,
pleased to respite the Vl:bele of them during his Roya!plea. as it contained much stronger remarks on Major
sure, with the exception of John BarrTtl ind Henry Birley than those which the paragraph contradicted
Wens, who ass left for execution on ?itnnday next. contained respecting the elailitili. But we appeal
Nor the laws condemned ra death those thirty-five confidently to every one with whom we have
peTs,ms, every one of whose lives might be actually taken had elealis whether we have not, on all occasions,
g,
vea The scaffold, if lire King's Ministers pleased to athlse
the Sovereign not to interpose the regal attrihret or mercy,
been most ready—nay, anxious—to cornet an error
but to allow " the law to take its ceureve" That the lives into which we may have fallen, and to make the rem
Partition at least as extensive as the 'enintehtional
el' the whole thirty-five individeats were not taken is not
?he fault of the law, for teething could he more legal than injury, The, plaintiff' pae-s vast compliments to our ,
she wholesale hotnicille gall upon whom the Recorder had Power, by s feting that through our abuse of him he ,
passed sentence of death, lint there is something which has been injured in his reputation as a public man,
the law, has not taught mankind that prohibits tvh:it the otally ruined in his trade, &c., with much more to I
Item corowonds, and prevents the ditignSting exhibition that effect. Now, if this be no exaggeration, whence i
of ,inch promiscuous judiciel itittueehter. What is this do w t
e possess so much power ? We answer, by
- something" that is more tenthoritative than the tribunals, the title which we have to public confidence,—by t
and stronger than the laws' It is the power of enlightened the uniyetsal and well-founded belief in our veracity.
opinion, calling to its aid the morals of the Christian disc
pensation and the instincts of morality. Now it is very odd, but there is no species of :liaise,
But, powerful as this enlightened form of Opinion is, it
as he knows full well, which he and others like him
about
is not ail-powerful, or it would not only forbid the whole- have not levelled at us, himself for 1 113 years, r,
sale acts of btrehery which tbe law commands, hut prevent and yet he has never been able' to do us any harm , a
tide selection of particular victims to perish for offences for Should net thi3 teach him a lesson ? We hope i' f
which nothing but a law of vengeance court dare to take may not be thrown away upon him. His present a
human life. Such are the cases of the two ttnfrectUnate speech contains a variety of untruths about our
men who are ordered for execution on Monday next. They Journal, which we care not to refute ; neither do
are the Detected victims of a system Which never ought to we ask or wish him to correct them. Our feeling
have existed, and which our Whig Ministers, when out of towards him, office, denounced as rvo 434 opposed to the interests of
one of perfe and respecting all lie can say or do, is
justice than to the dictates of humanity, ct indifference.—Tinics.
Now we admit that the offences of callie..erantti, and Bow-street Is We
report. , suppose P
this is the witness in the trial. See also the
ofstealing liters from the Post-office are sicrions and grave
stffencrs. Be it so. Are there not 'serious and grave
,If punishment known to our taw, which are sufficient modus t
for CHOLERA NIORBUS, OFFICIAL REPORT. c
--- - else coercion of the offlenders, and for the crumple to evil-
COUNCIL
RICE, WHITEHALL.—(THIS DAY.) o
doers, without taking. life? Does the sledding of humus DAILY REPORT of CHOLERA CASES. e,
blood prevent the recurrence of these crimes ? Not in the -- -_ ---
least. If the punishment of death were an effective ex- es', . e v,
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ample for the repression of crime, surely the practice of
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wilful end malicious btsrtsiv would before this time have • e .e.
been effectually repressed. There is hardly an instance ;. x 3 3V.4,3i? ,
ri.4 4Z 'Z 44r-ei-s e;
where a conviction has been obtained on such a charge, for x
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years past, in which ezectilicrn has not followed, No _._ a
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matter how doubtful the evidence might be on which the Sunderland, Feb. 8 lOO 0 1 5.12 26'2 conviction was obtained—no matter what circumstances of
Newcastle Feb. 9......
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mitigation might have existed—the Government have been
in every instance (with a rare exception or two) inexorable North Shields &c. Feb. S C6 9 3 4 68 236
39 or
(and none more so than onr prevent Whig Government) to in
Percy main, Feb. 8 49 13 , 3 II 5(1 123 16 cc
petitions for mercy on the ground of either alleged inno-
hi eenct or mitigated guilt ; yet, in utter contempt of these Walker, Feb. 8. .....
punishments of Mood, the crime of arson has increased Hetton, Re., Feb. 8 l4 411 0 17 367 75 f`
rather than sEminished, affording convincing evidence th a h:
the work of human slaughter by judicial process, of which Haddington, Feb. 7 lB 2 1 6 13 112 55 tr
our Stattsmen and our Legislators are so fond, works no Tranent, Feb. 7 158 20 2 3 73 190 58 tt
'-coral, reformation, al
, Preston Pans, Feb. 7 35 8 0 12 31 84 14 tt
'We had hopes that as now, and for some thee past, tne '
fe sanguinary nature of our criminal cede has been universally Gladeniuir, Feb. 6 ....... OlO 0:1 1 0 T
reprobated, the Government would be glad to relieve
themselves from the painful responsibility of advising his North
Berwick, Feb. 6 6 1 1 0 6 13 6
th
Majesty to allow the ferocious law to take its course against Mnsselbures, Feb. 6&7 76 34 N 12 87 362 153 sh
any offender whose crime was not at least a violent one, and ga
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of the highest degree of malignity and danger; but those Feb. 7 5 2 0 2 5 16 4 ehe
hopes have been disappointed—Christian England alone, of Kirkintilloch, Feb. 7I 8 31 0 5 6 1 62 22
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all the nations of Europe, and under a Whig Government,
1352 1104 24 160 1372 3112 979 ha
Total
punishes with death those offences Pr which the two Total from places where the disease has ceased, culprits are on Monday to suffer upon that scaffold where and
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from which no returns hare been this dal
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rkites so lately expired. —Morning Herald.received nit
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A mistake, either wilful or stupid in no small de Grand Total 414612.5 1 the
greed is made by a correspondent in relation to our (Signed) WM. MACLEAN, Secretary.
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yesterday's article on the subject of Irish tithes.
ROLLS' COURT.—T HIS hDAY.) Ch
The fear which this person affects to entertain is, (
Ste
His Honour the MASTER of the ROLLS proceeded with
ag,
that we are playing into the hands of the Irish land-
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lards, by recommending the abolition of the tithe the hearing of petitions to-day.
HARTLE r. AIERY.
nof the guardians of a young man_ six_ /I(
system, inasmuch as the rent of the land would be This was the petitio

raised if tithe should cease to be levied. A prodi-
gious discovery it is, and worth its weight in—mud,
that if the land pays less in one way, it will, ccrtcris
paribus, pay more in another It happens not to
have been two months ago that we declared a dis-
tinct arid strong opinion in favour of a land tar, to
be collected by the Government, and applied in due
proportions to the payment of all classes of clergy,
save the Bishops of the Established Church, whose
support might be more conveniently drawn from '
other and now existing sources; as also might that
of the churchmen immediately connected with the
University. As for tithe itself, the thing is doomed.
No law, nor policy, nor force, nor persuasion, can
avert its overthrow. It is not merely the pecuniary
pressure of the tithe system upon the comforts of
the poor which rendtrs its continuance impossible.
The na'ional feeling is so directly opposed to that

particular connivance, and to iis object, that the
Catholic peasant would rather, if necessary, pay a

rent of tvo shillings than a tithe of one.

Brit, as

we have said, such an alternative under any

rational view ()f the question would be altogether
needless. The amount of tithe raised from the

people of Ireland has been exacted and defended

upon a monstrous fiction,—,riz. that the inhabitants

of the whole surface of the island which is subject to
that ecclesiastical impost, puy it over to the Pro-
testant priesthood in return for some benefit re-
ceived. The people pay in fact as if they all were
Protestants ; and if by some miracle they were to
become Protestants to-morrow, it is plain that the

This was the petition of the guardians of a young man, six-
teen years of age, who on attaining his majority would become
entitled to a fortune of 10,000/., and the object of it was to ob-
tain a reference to the Master, to point out what course the
petitioner should adopt with reference to the infant. The
young man had sometime since returned from school, and the
guardians were extremely anxious to put him out as an ap_
prentice to some respectable business, but their laudable en-
deavours had been in every case thwarted, in consequence of
the perverse conduct pursued by the young man, who had
conducted himself most improperly, having run awy from the
house where he resided under the care of his guardians, and gone
to live with a person in Canonbury-lane, from whom the guar-
dians could not prevail upon him to return. At one period he had
been prevailed upon to consent to be bound apprentice to a Mr.
Powell, a respectable appraiser and cabinet-maker, in Blackman_
Street, in the Borough, from whom he immediately ran away,
declaring he would not be bound apprentice to any person, and
expressed a great personal aversion to the guardians in conse-
quence of their endeavours to keep him out of mischief. The
young man, on being brought before the Master yesterday, ma-
nifested a desire to be bound apprentice to a carcase-butcher, a
friend of the person with whom he had been residing in Canon-
bury-lane, and declared his determination not to consent to be
bound apprentice to any body else.
The MASTER of the ROLLS inquired what the fortune
of the young man would be, and, upon being informed
it would exceed 10,0001. on his coming of age, his Honour ob-
served, that it was improper that a young man with such expec-
titions should be apprenticed even to a cabinet-maker.
Mr. WAKEFIELD observed, that the guardians were anx-
ious to do all they could for this young man, but the course he
had adopted compelled them to come to the Court for directions
as to the course they ought to pursue. They were anxious to
resign the guardianship, on account of the personal aversion the
young man had to them.

established clergy must be satisfied with the same
amount of the tithe revenue, although the labour of

their parochial and other duties would be greater
than they now are, in proportion as their flock.
would he multiplied—that is, the said duties
would be augmented at least fivefold. But as it
seems that the Church, any more than the State, is
no longer to be governed by fictions, and that the
sinecure nature of at least four-fifths of the Irish

The MASTER of the ROLLS observed if the young man
had that personal aversion to the guardians which had been
stated, a reference to the Master, to appoint a person to have the
management of him, would be of service.
The COURT then referred it to the Master, to inquire
what course it would be convenient to adopt with respect
to the infant, and whether, with a view to the adoption
of that course, other persons should be appointed to have the
care of him.

VICE-CHANCERY COURT-(THIS DAY.)

SHIPLEY v. WRIGHT.

clergyman's employment- has at length been pretty
!generally recognized, it follows that on a ni-w ad-
justment of the ways and means for supporting the
IF:stablished Church in Ireland, a more ciirrect ap-
proximation must be agreed upon between the sum
of service performed, and the quantum of recompense
to be provided for the clergy. As for any re-model-
ling of the Church revenues which shall meditate the
exclusive appropriation of them hereafter to the

His Honour the VICE-CHANCELLOR was occupied the
whole morning with hearing the arguments in this important
bankrupt petition, the facts of which we refrain from detailing
till the case is concluded and his Honour gives judgment. It
will be recollected that we stated yesterday this case was ap_
pointed for Monday next, and that the Court would take mo-
tions to-day ; but in consequence of the application of Mr. Roe
in the latter part of yesterday, that arrangement was broken up.

COURT OF KING'SBENCH.-(THIS DAY.)

payment of the Protestant clergy, it isa—chimera'o
the face of it. We do not say that a strict re-
gard to the rights of individuals now in possessiiin
can or ought to be dispensed with; all incumbents
at this moment enjoying them, should In some way
be indemnified. But that goes merely to the quan-
tum of income, not to the prolongation of it ira the
shape of tithe. As a vstem, it will be impossible
to perpetuate her moriopt,ly to the Established
Church of Ireland. Whatever equivalent for tithe
shall be instituted, and whatever additions, whether
more or less extensive, it may receive from the su-

DEFAMATION AND APOLOGY.—WEALS v. HALIFAX.
Mr. CAPRON stated this was an action brought by Robert
Neale, against Thomas New Halifax, and the declaration stated
that the defendant had uttered certain defamatory words, im.
puting to the plaintiff that he had committed the crime of
perjury.—The defendant pleaded a justification.
Sir J. SC ARLETT stated that the plaintiff was by profession
an attorney, at Midhurst, in Sussex, a gentleman of great re.
spectability, and held in high estimation in his neigh-
bourhood, whose character had been attacked in the most
unprovoked manner by the defendant, who must have la-
toured under some gross delusion, when he imputed
to him the crime of perjury, on several occasions repeat.
ing that charge. He (Sir James Scarlett) waa fully pre-
pared to go into the case, but he understood that his