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of Peace may be for proper local Judges, it is
better to have them than to be altogether without
a Magistracy.;---Morning Chronicle: •

The. very marked manner in which every sen-
timent favourable to Catholic Emancipation. was
received by the niunerous and respectable meet-
ing of Protestant Dissenters, on 'Wednesday
night, is the more gratifying, as in the meetings
of the Gentlemen who. charged themselves with
the preliminary arrangements some apprehension
was, we understand, expressed as to the conse-
quences to which the making common cause
with the Catholics might lead. The Duke of
Sussex, however, highly to his honour, deter-
mined, that if. there should be any compromise
of the broad principle of religious liberty, he
would not take the Chair. The result proved
that his Royal Highness did not anticipate too
flinch from 'an enlightened body of Protestant.
Dissenters. A more unequivocal proof there
could not well be givenof the falsehood of the
.accusations so industriously propagated against
the Dissenters as a body. Among them indivi-
duals may, no doubt, still be found (especially
among the very aged) unfavourable to einancipa-
tion ; but these individuals are but as drops in
the ocean.---Ibid.

We have never taken any part in the question
relative to the London University (a term, by
the bye, which probably gave rise to much of
the opF osition it has met with), because we
never saw any question that it admitted of. If
certain individuals, either for their Own profit, or
as they suppose, for the public convenience or
advantage, choose to set up a large school, and
invite parents to send their sons there, as long
as there is no compulsion about it, we see no
right that any one has to complain, any more
than if the same people had opened a warehouse
for the sale of tobaCco or muslin. Still less have
we felt inclined to take part in the clamour which
has been raised against it by persons who, having
failed in running down the new establishment,
now, propose, it seems, to set up a rival-shop of
their own. The term University was, as we
have hinted, the source of most of this clamour.
The Liberals of Oxford and Cambridge could
not brook any thing so degrading as a Joint
Stock Company for Education claiming a similar
designation to their own—as they call them—
princely foundations. The opposition, as might
be naturally wished and expected, does not seem
to have, had much effect on the projectors of the
new Institution, who have proceeded with an ex-.
traordinary zeal and rapidity in the execution of
their plan,
_and a large building—the first stone
of which, it was declared by their opponents
could never be laid—will in a few months be
completed and in full operation. Thinking as
we do, that one of the striking faults of the pre-
sent age is the over-education of the people, we
do not embark much zeal on the other side of
the question ; . nor should we be at all surprised,
if this new structure, instead of being much re-
sorted to as a general school, were to become a
mere seminary of medicine, and ultimately, per-.
haps, an hospital. The danger to religion,
which its warmest opponents profess to see in it,
we confess to look upon as altogether visionary.
If religion were to be obtained only by constant
teaching, we fear that our present Universities
wonld. not produce much fruit in that way ; for
we have heard it said that a young max, not
avowedly intended for orders, need not, during
the whole three years of his residence there,
hear or read one word about religion beyond the
chapel walls ; and that, even if he is destined
for the Ministry, all that he' need do in addition
is to attend- a certain number of Divinity Lec-
tures, but which he is not required to give any
proofs of having attended. If, then, the oppo-
nents of the London University, at their Meet-
ing to-morrow, mean to establish one of their
Own, and that for the sake of religion, founded
upon the models we have alluded to, one of two
things must be the result—either it must fail, as
prOfessing that which it does not perform ; or,
by accomplishing that which its prototypes have
littherto neglected, it must shame these proto-
types into a practice, the very adoption of which
will be a tolerable proof of their having been hi-
therto most wanting in that about which (as it
is not uncommonly the case) they have raised the
greatest clamour. Abstracted from all other
considerations, we confess we are not warm advo-
cates of a London education. To say nothing
Of the vice and Cockneyism of the thing, we con-
sider that health and firm bodily habits should
accompany the cultivation of the mind in early
life, and that manly sports, pursued in free and
wholesome air, with the views of nature which
country scenes impress with so much subsequent
advantage upon the young mind, ought not to be
lost sight of by.those who wish to see their
chil-
dreo poseessing the mens sans in corpore sano.
Least of all should these advantages be lost sight
of upon a mere low principle of local rivalry.—
It will be exceedingly absurd to see the friends
of "religion and social order" establishing a rival
gtrifcture on the other side of the New. Road,
and calling their's the " true shop," while the
other will call itself the " original ;" struggling,
like rival innkeepers, who shall furnish horses for
the "march of intellect.'l Such scenes, or any-
thing resembling them, would be both unseemly
and absurd ; and we trust, therefore, that the
public are not agomed to witness any thing of
the kind.--Morning Herald.
We were not unprepared to expect that the
establishment of a seminary ire the metropolis, in
which religion should be combined with educa-
....n4easl of being studiously divorced from
it, as in the nick.-named London University,
would be represented by the friends of the latter
as:mean and discreditable. We have invariably
fourid that those. who take to themselves the
Wang of liberals are most wofully deficient in the
power thareof—and that there is none so impa-
tient of the honest goal of a Christian as he to
whom all religions are alike. The freethinker
of the present day is the same bigotted exclu-
;3iee. animal that he has always been, and equally.
answer,: the definition long ago given of him—
that he was one who insisted not only in think-
ing for himself, but for every one else. It is
said that the College to which we yesterday al-
wded, with feelings of honest exultation, as
likely to by established on Church principles,
is to be
t n
g out sse fm. the
iaers from the the benefit of a
good education. \%e reject any such in-
terpretation
of the motives that led to otir
recommendation
the measure; and we feel
eciu
uy
repel such an imputation
on the motives of those who
design to carry our
aitthorised of
to
recommendation into effect. fheir objection
and ours, to time Gower-street Academy, is not
that it admits of Dissenters, but that, on pretence
of consulting the feelings and prejudices of Dis-
senters, it shuts, out religion from its walls, and
thus shuts out all, whether Dissenters or
Churchmen,. who are really and truly desirous of
a religious education for their children. That
Academy, we are told, offends not the opinions
of persons of any religion ! It would be more

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accurate to say, it offends not the opinions of
persons of no religion. Do its advocates deem
it no offence to persons of religion that no bell
shall toll to prayers—that no voice of psalms'
shall be heard within its walls ? Do they deem
it no offence to persons of religion, that while
communicating to the youth under their care
the elements of literature and science, the
bps of the professors shall be sealed against
an allusion to that highest knowledge, without
which tongues are sounding brass, and science
folly ? We know not what may be the faith Of
those who think so lightly of religious feelings ;
but we will not do so much injustice to the re-
spectable portion of the Dissenters, as to sup-
pose for a moment that their opinions are to be
conciliated by a seminary that purposely, and
by rule, excludes all religion. For ourselves,
we are far from wishing that Dissenters should be
denied the advantages of the higher branches of
education. When we first touched upon this
subject we said, and we now repeat it, that it
was desirable the children► of Dissenters should
be well educated, because we. knew nothing so
likely to induce them to return to the Church,
between which and such of them as have a claim

to. the name of religious Dissenters, there
exists such slender grounds for separation, that
we are persuaded, had their ancestors been
enlightened, and educated men, separation
would never have taken plate. All that is
wished—all that can be wished in the projected
Seminary, of whose progress towards accom-.
plishment, we hope, in a very few days, to be
able to speak more definitely—is to furnish to
those whose religious opinions are not quite so
lightly worn as not to be shocked by the absence
Jail religion, a place to which they can with
propriety,
.and with the approbation of their con-
sciences, send their children. That many Dis-
senters, notwithstanding the religion to be taught
there will be the established religion, will take
advantage of the Seminary rather than of one in
which it is established that no religion shall be
taught, we have no manner of doubt.—We have
only one thing more to say. The friends to the
projected Seminary meet to-morrow in the Free-
masons' Tavern. We earnestly press on them
the propriety, the necessity, of coming forward
promptly anddecisively. Much depends on the
manner in which a commencement is made. If
it be languid, the progress will probably be slow,
and the termination, dubious; if it be spirited,
the :progress will be rapid. and the completion
certain.—New Tunes.

PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

ORDERS OF TIIE DAY FOR THIS DAY.

1. Scottish Vagrants Bill—Further consideration of Re-
port.
2. Sheriffs (Ireland) Bill—Committee.
3. Witnesses in Equity (Ireland) Bill—Third reading.
4. Promissory Notes (Ireland) Bill—Furth.r considera-
tion of Report.
5. Church Briefs Abolition Bill—Third reading.
6. Small Debts Bill—Second reading.
7. Stamp Duties Bill—Report.
8. New South Wales Bill—Committee.
9. Cities and Towns Improvement (Ireland) Bill—Third
reading.
10. Additional Churches Bill—Second reading.
11. Hops Excise Bill—Second reading.
12. Salmon Preservation (Scotland) Bill—Report.
13. Bank Notes (Scotland and Ireland) Bill—Further con-
sideration of Report.
14. Excise Licenses and Survey Bill—Committee.
15. Glass Duties Bill—Report. •
16. Sugar Duties Bill—Third reading.
17. General Turnpike Acts Amendment Bill—Further
consideration of Report.
18. Night Poaching Prevention BilL—Committee.
19. Canada Company Bill—Third reading.
20. notel-keepers Bill—Committee.
21. Supply—Committee.
22. Ways and Means—Committee.
23. Cider and Perry Excise Licenses Act—Committee

thereupon.
24. Pilotage Act—Committee thereupon.

NOTICES OF MOTIONS FOR THIS DAY.

I. Sir Henry Hardinge—Army and Militia Estimates,
(In Committee of Supply.)
2. Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer—Miscellaneous Esti-
mates. (In Committee of .Supply.)
3. Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer—Bill to amend Con•
stabulary Act (Ireland).

NOTICES GIVEN YESTERDAY.
Monday, June 23.
Mr. Nicolssn Calvert—Bill to disqualify certain Voters
for the Borough of East Retford from voting for Me►n-
bers to serve in Parliament.
Tuesday, June 24.
Dr. Phillimi.re—Bill for regulating the office of the Re-
gistrars of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, and
the subordinate offices held under appointments of
the said Registrars.
Thursday, June 26.
1. Mr. Charles Pallmer—Bill to amend so much of Fo-
reign Enlistment Act [59 Geo. 3, c. 69], as re-
lates to the fitting out or equipping vessels for war-
like purposes.
2. Mr. Sngden—Bill to alter and amend the Law relating
to illusory appointments.
3. Mr. Spring Rice—Bill to facilitate the establishment
of schools for general instruction in Ireland.
4. Mr. Grattan—Copies of Correspondence between the
Magistrates of Wexford Sessions and the Secretary
for Ireland, in the years 1823 and 1824.
• Thursday, July 3.
Mr. Maurice Fitzgerald—Extracts of Correspondence be-
tween the English and Irish Governments at the pe-
riod of the Union.

A snake, measuring two feet ten inches in
length, WAS killed last week at Weald Gullet, Epping
Forest : on cutting it open, a foot of a rabbit, fresh and
undecayed, was discovered in its belly : the snake, when
found, was in a state of stupor.

A curious occurrence was witnessed a few days
since, by some persons who were proceeding along the
Ilolderness road. Two game cocks having casually met,
in that great public thoroughfare, with the ferocity natural
to their species, fell foul of each other, and were fighting
together with such hearty good will, as to be utterly un-
observant of what was passing around them. A cow, a
creature of more pacific habits, having sheet ved the affray,
determined to put an end to it, not by negociation, but by
the force of the powerful weapons with which nature has
provided her. So, stepping up to the belligerents, she
suscessfully demonstrated th truth of the axiom, " an"
fulcra pacis," and, by thrusting one of them to one side and
one to the other, with her horns, procured a cessation of
hostilities.—Hull Packet.

'The Seal fishery had turned out, upon the
whole, favourably at Halifax. " The amount of seals
taken by the four vessels," says the Acadian, ~ is 3,300,
leaving a very fair average on the whole. It is worthy of
remark, that generally the seals taken off Causo by the
Glasgow were larger than those taken near Newfound-
land ; and in such plenty that, had not the wind veered
about next morning, from the land, breaking out the iee,
as many would have been taken as could have been stowed
in the vessel. From this the inference is natural, that,
without proceeding to distant coasts, our own shores pre-
sent a rich harvest to the enterprising and active in this
branch of commerce." It appears, however; that the seal
fishery at St. John's, New Br unswick, had been far from
productive. A letter from St. John's, dated April 30,
says—" Upwards of thirty sealing schooners have arrived
since our last, with (generally speaking) very poor voyages,
and confirming the very unfavourable reports of the seal
fishery brought by the first arrivals." The New Bruns-
wick House of Assembly has voted 4,000/. for the en-
couragement of the fisheries, and 3,0001. to encourage the
raising of
grain on new land ; 6,000/. for the improve-
ment of the great roads, and a like sum for the by-roads of
the province. The weather., for more than a fortnight past,
had been uncommonly cold, the wind having been almost
invariably south-east, accompanied with heavy chilling rains
and dense ttgs. Vegetation is, in consequence, exceed-
ingly backward for the season. The prevalence of the cold
south-easterly winds is to be attributed chiefly to the vast
quantities of floating ice, still found at no great distance
from the coast.

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LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Jurns 19.
MAOILANE V. WHITE.
This was a question upon the construction of the
Act of 'the 53d George 111., c. 71. By the 7th
section of that Act it is enacted, that in all cases
where any question shall arise as to the amount of
the reasonable t (fats, expences, or fees, due or pay-
able to any witness summoned on the hearing of any
petition to set aside the election of a Member of
Parliament, the Speaker of the House of Commons
shall, on application made for that purpose, direct
the same to be taxed, and the person taxing shall
report the amount to the Speaker, who shall be at
liberty to certify. the same as evidence of the de-
mand; and by the 13th section it was envied, that
in any. action for costs, expences, or fees, which shall
have been so Certified, the Court may, on the appli-
cation of the Plaintiff, order judgment to be entered
up for the sum adjudged to be due again the defend-
ant, in like manner as upon a warrant of attorney. The
plaintiff in this case had been summoned as a witness
on the trial of the Dublin election petition before a
Committee of the House of Commons. He at-
tended on the part of the defendant, Lieutenant-
Colonel Henry White, the sitting member for Dublin,
and his costs having been taxed and certified in the
manner prescribed by the act, application Was now
made to the Court on his behalf by Mr. Starkie, for
a rule to enter up judgment for the sum found to be
due to him.
Mr. ADAM and Mr. LAW, fur the defendant, op-
posed the application, and contended, that the act in
question had reference only to the costs of persons
attending as witnesses in support of the petition, and
not on the part, of the sitting member. They objected
also that it had not been ascertained, as it ought, to
have been, that the plaintiff was summoned on the
part of the defendant.
The CouRT decided against both the objections,
and granted the rule for entering, up the judgment.
THE ICING V. JAMES WOODALL.
The judgment of the Court was pronounced upon
this defendant, a headborough of Hadleigh, for as-
saulting a farmer, of the name of Powell, residing at
Enfield. lie was fined Os. Bd., and ordered to enter
into his awn recognizance to keep the peace for
one year.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, JUNE 19.
HENLEY V. THE MAYOR OF LYME REGIS.
This was an action against the Mayer and Bur-
gesses of Lyme Regis, to recover a compensation in
damages for a loss which the plaintiff alleged he had
sustained, in consequence of the defendants having
neglected to perform a duty which he insisted .was
imposed upon them by the charter under which they
were authorized to act as a corporate body. The
injury of which he complained, and for which he
sought a compensation, was 'the destruction of his
houses by the sea, which had broken over its usual
boundary, as he- alleged, in consequence of the im-
perfect state of the sea-walls, which he further alleged
the defendants were bound to repair. The case
was tried befre Mr. Justice Gaselee during the last
assizes at Dorchester, when, to. prove the liability
of the defendants, a charter of Charles I. was put in,
by which it was held at the trial that the defendants
were liable, and a verdict was consequently returned
for the plaintiff, with such damages as they supposed
would remunerate him for the injury which his pro-
perty had sustained.
Mr. Sergeant MEREWF.THER, in the course of
last term, obtained a rule calling on the plaintiff to
show cause why judgment should not be arrested,
upon the ground that the plaintiff, not being a party
to the charter upon which he had founded his case,
was not a competent person to maintain an action
against the mayor and burgesses.
Mr. Sergeant WILDE yesterday morning showed
cause againit the rule, 111 Id Mr. Sergeant TARDY and
Mr. Sergeant MEREWETHER supported it.
The.COURT said, that in their opinion, the fact of
the plaintiff's not being a party to the charter did not
prevent him from maintaining an action against the
defendants, and consequently the present. motion in
arrest of judgment, ought in their opinion to be dis-
charged.— Rule discharged.

COURT OF ADMIRALTY, JUNE 19.
THE MALTA.
The Court was occupied during the whole of the
morning in hearing read the very voluminous evidence
of the witnesses in this protracted case, the parti-
culars of which are before the public.