The Sun.
London, England, 1828-10-01 00:00:00

CORPORATION MEETING.

On Saturday the. masters, wardens, and members
of the guilds of the corporation, met, pursuant to a
nan:eless requisition, at the house, on Wellington-
tlic propriety of
quay, for the purpose of discussing
petitioning against any further • concessions to the
Catholics.
Mr. Sheriff HODGES in the Chair: •
After a variety of bad speeches, perpetrated
chiefly by Messrs. CLAITDIUS BEREsFORD and DAVIE
ITLEARY, a tailor, eminent .for his patriotism, the
following resolution was put from the Chair and
adopted in the following form :--
Resolved—" That this Meeting do recommend •
the various corporations of this city, on their next
quarterly day, to petition his Majesty and the Le-
gislature against granting any further Protestant
privileges to the Roman Catholics- of the British
empire, and also to petition for the repeal of so much
of the 33d of the late King as granting power to
Papists to vote at elections.'.'
A vote of thanks to the Duke of Newcastle, the
Marquis of Chandos, and Lord Kenyon, was then
proposed,
And on the motion of Mr. MALLET, the name of
Lord Eldon being added, the resolution was carried
unanimously. - _

Alderman KING begged to suggest an idea which
might be put afterwards into the shape of a resolu-
tion. It was to call the attention of the Meeting to
the Brunswick Clubs in England and Ireland,pledg-
ing themselves to co-operate in every manner with
these Constitutional Clubs.

A resolution to this effect having been adopted,
Alderman King was called to the Chair, and thanks
having been returned to Mr. Sheriff Hodges, the
meeting broke up amid tremendous shouting, cheer-
ing, waving of hats, handkerchiefs, and other mani-
festations of triumph.—Duhlin Paloci%

DREADFUL MURDER.

-MONMOUTH', sErr. 30,

This town and neighbourhood are in a state of
extraordinary excitement from the discovery, on
Sunday morning, of a murder committed on the
body of Esther Stephens, the wife of W. Stephens,
a bargeman, which in its sanguinary character falls
little short of the horrid atrocities with which the
public ear has, of late, been made too familiar. A
Coroner's jury was assembled. at ten o'clock on
Sunday morning, and proceeded to view the body,
which was found lying on one side, with the knees
drawn up, a deep cut through the larynx and half
through the asophagus, the external carotids and
the superior skyroid artery divided. A clasp knife,
such as rustics generally carry in their pockets, was
found in the blood which surrounded the body, and
a horn-handled dining knife, round at the point, was
lying on the table. The room was literally deluged
with blood, and traces of blood were left, as if made
with the fingers, on both sides of the staircase, and
on the lock of the door. The house in which the
deceased and her husband lived is in Wyebridge-lane,
and is let out in separate floors of two rooms each.
It appeared from the evidence of several persons
that the deceased had been from home several weeks,
and returned on Saturday morning, when she found
the house locked. She afterwards got some one to
write a letter, which she left at the turnpike-house
in Wyebridge, to be delivered to a young man named
Edward Barnett. This letter Esther Stephens af-
terwards fetched from the turnpike-house, saying
that she had found where Barnett was ; she then
delivered the letter to a little girl, Jane Watkins,
who was desired to call Barnett out of the Queen's
Head public•house, and give the letter to him.--
This the child did, when he broke open the letter
and said, "I can't read it—can you ?" The letter
was afterwards put into the hands of the hostler,
who, on his examination, said that he could not
rightly make it out; he, however, remembered that
he read " Maria Marten, and the Red Barn," when
Barnett took it out of his hand, saying--" I know
where it comes from," and wer.t hastily away.. The
child had been directed to tell Barnett that he was
to meet Esther Stephens at the Gloucestershire-
house, whither he accordingly went, and the child
was afterwards sent to tell him that Esther's husband
was just come home, and that she would not come
to him for three quarters of an hour, by. which time
he •would be gone down the river with the barge to
which he belonged. They were afterwards seen to
go together into Stephens's house, and Esther was
seen in the course of the afternoon,fetching beer,coal,
and water : each time locking the door, which she
was not in the habit of doing when she went on such
errands. She went out late in the evening, and was
heard by a man (nicknamed Blackbird) and his wife,-
who lived on the floor below, to return about half-
past
one or two, shortly after which a scuffle was
heard, which becoming more violent, the woman
jumped up, saying to her husband, " Bill, for God's
sake, see what Stephens is doing to his wife," when
he halloed out " What the devil, Stephens, are you
about ? Are you going to murder the woman ?"
When something was heard to fall on the floor, and
all was again silent. Little notice was taken of the
scuffling and screaming, as Stephens and his wife
frequently quarrelled and fought. A loud scream
was heard by a man named Fuller, who lived nearly
opposite, and he got up and opened the window,
but heard nothing more, although be remained some
time at the window, during which the church clock
struck three, and the chimes played. This man was
one of the first persons who entered the house of the
deceased after the murder, having been informed
by a person natned Pierce that " Het of the
Kymin" was murdered, he having. discovered the
door wide open, and on going up had found her in a
gore of blood.
Suspicion attaches most strongly to E. Barnett,
the person who received the letter from the child,
and was seen to go into the house from the circum-
stance of a pair of laced boots having been found there,
which a shoemaker named Mitchell swore that be
had made for Barnett ; a fustian shooting jacket, such
as he generally wore; a hat of a better description
than the one ever worn by the husband; and a shot-
bag, containing upwards of 301. in notes, sovereigns,
and save:, and which bag, with a good deal of
money in it, he is proved to have had in his posses-
sion whilst paying for some rum and water which
he drank at the Gloucestershire House.
A reward of forty guineas has been offered for the
apprehension of Edward Barnett by the Mayor of
Monmouth. He is, it appears, a wood-cutter, and
resided at Redding, near Staunton, and is thus de-
scribed :—About 23 years of age, about five feet ten
inches in height, stout built, and well made, but
rather stoops and shuffles as he walks : has dark full
eyes, dark brown hair, with whiskers of the same
colour, but a little inclined to sandy; dark com-
plexion, arid freckled on his cheeks ; has a heavy
sullen look, a prominent nose, with a wide mouth,
and full good teeth. He has a full sized foot, and
his leg above the aurae joint is particularly small for
so stunt a man.

WALSALL, SEPT. 2G.—Our town has been
a scene of unusual gaiety, the weather favouring the va-
rious sports and entertainincut—the races, the fair, and
the fair Miss FOOTE at our Theatre, who, on the morning
benefitandun atrioi:
of Thursday, witnessed the successful efforts of Mr. Seim"
RAT'S chesnut mare Maria Darlington, who made het'
debut on the turf, won the gold cup, awl distanced ,her
fares of " Youth, Love,
competitors, in like manner to her namesalie the original
Maria Darlington. In the evening Miss foorr, in the
selected for this occasion,) acted
when we. have no doubt.. the efforts she
the celebrated jockey
Jockey admirably, and in singing
song, she neatly and most successfully introduced the names
aFetoeldly,a"pd°reioltarrtohperialikttllye
and colours of the winning horses of the day, which teas
mreol'enis7yd-elnveoitlrietdh.inid;irisssoFf
oa
op
TplEanwsei,li andtak elcilideliy.
has made in her very superior. acting, singing, g and dancing
morrow evening,
to gietify and amuse her auditors during. the race,, will i 4;
remunerated by as numerous and. delighted an audience,
we had the pleasure of witnessing last night to her es
forniances, the Theatre being crowded in ~ ..
r‘Fiy part to an
overflow.

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SPIRIT OF THE LONDON JOURNALS..

elleaf6talre of the Dardanelles is nose' al-
leged to be a measure positively resolved • '-upoil
by Russia, and acquiesced in by the English Go-
vernment. It must be presumed, therefore, that
the opinion expressed in the House of Lords •
last year by his Majesty's First Minister,'as to
the disastrous consequences to -be anticipated
from an overthrow of the Turkish power iii
Europe, has undergone a considerable change.
The consequence of the blockade, if it be a-sue-
cessful operation, will be equal to that of a con-
quest of the Turkish empire ; and those foreign
Power's which assent to, dr submit to it, are lend-
ing them selves in substance to that humiliation
key, ao
the. authority of the Duke. of
tdoestchrat
ibinregdto:tibo;aolf.nahtetrerpoosfveser,_
Nvfv:"Tielc'i ren‘g,ibetl have,
h
than that
atiliaartmittousEszohsse.
the best possible right to
There is nothing clearer
avail herself of an effective blockade of the Dar=
dauelles, as a legitimate mode of warfare against
her enemy, provided she have not already waved
that privilege by especial compact or understand-
ing with her other partners in the Greek
treaty. But, so far as one at least of thosesallies
is concerned, the notice of blockade ought to
be accompanied or followed by a full explana-
tion of the sense in which the " waver of the
right to maritime warfare in the Mediterranean
' for Russian objects, by a Russian force; was
received and understood by those who made it a
prominent ground of satisfaction in the
speech King's
to Parliament, that thus the honour ofthe Government may be freed from suspicion,
,whatever may become of its praise for wisdom,.
or of the pretensions' to firmness and consistency
put forth for the Prime Minister by his adhe-
rents. In fact, -with regard to this same virtue
()firmness, few things would afford us more
sincere gratification than to witness a display et
it by his Majesty's present Government in any
one popular and honest cause, feeling ourselves
under difficulty where to look for it in any de-
partment of policy at home or abroad which
embraces great national questions.—Times.
The narrative of the young Queen of Portu-
gal's movements (which will be found elsewhere),
and of the homage tendered, not less to her in-
nocent and helpless childhood than to her politi-
cal wrongs, cannot, we think, be read without
emotion. Had she never been. born to a diadem,
and her high claims announced to her, and her
youthful mind already loaded with the seeds of
those uneasypassions which beset withoit mercyt he
aspirants to sovereign power—Which haunt them
while they exercise it, nor unhappily leave them
when they lose it—the kindest prayer we could
offer up for poor Maria da Gloria would be, that
she might never achieve the boisterous elevation
from which she has even in her first approach to
it been so rudely and treacherously spurned.
But such feelings we know to be unseasonable,
when the destiny of nations is entwined with
that of Princes. The moral coloring of
this young creature's life, and, by conse-
quence its best enjoyments, must be sub-
ject to an interest with which she is but arti-
ficially connected. Both will probably be sacri-
ficed to it if she should ascend the throne ; and
for that inestimable sacrifice, there will be none
to pity the decorated and unconscious victim.
With regard to the rights of this illustrious child
to the royal inheritance of the House of Bra-
ganea, in deliberating through what means they
ought to be recovered, we ought to recollect the
agency through which they were lost. It is quite
undisputed that the English Government cons
tributed in many ways to the success of Miguel,
—to the overthow of the chartered constitution,
and to the actual expulsion of' her whom it now
recognizes as the lawful Queen of Portugal. The
eagerness with which the British Government
courted Don Miguel, and swallowed the project fo
sending him to Lisbon, and after his arrivaltbere
withdrew its troops, the only available check
upon his known hostility to the Charter and to
the Liberal party, the natural frien& of Eng-
land,—the prompt subserviency to the schemee
of the Usurper, which led
.the King of En,
land's Ministers, to acknowledge successively tic
non-effective blockades of Oporto and Madensi,
before it was possible for them to be otherwise
than non-effective,—the series of instructions,
finally, which compelled Sir F. Lamb to throw
up in disgust an embassy which he could no
'longer hold but as a tool of perfidious des-
potisin,—these ill-judged proceedings were no
doubt the most efficient causes of Don Miguel's
triumph. It is not too much to affirm, there-
fore, that England has some amends to make
to Don Pedro and his deposed and expa-
triated child. England has been the chief
instrument of the despotism, because she only
had the power to deter Don Miguel from
passive
itlicsliingGaosb,earidmieilt
cause,to goan
dt o by any
bothatt eln
active,
tsenc,,alt
iyedsaalDitill)fstp:litriCoolt‘ee,
encourageshe t
binoe:,-
saving
in his atrocious enterprise. We do not desire
the war in
t of
ing to
.t world
laochniLfo'eellaideßbss:e,rtaibainvyeoaate d ; but if there are indirect methods
f
there indirect modes of redemptione. oforli-nesn7wZ
feel that they have done wrone; and we do assert
that by merely affording to the loyal Portuguese
a steady and friendly countenance, free from
trick, and vacillation, and duplicity, the, British
Government might, without risk, expellee, or
trouble, re-excite such a spirit in the mind of
F Portugal, as would, not require aid from a foreign
1 army to tumble the usurper from his throne—to
restore the charter to the people, and: the crown
to its legitimate poss.essor,—Pid.
The gross blunder committed by kr.
geant Arabin, one of those ornansents of' the
profession which the Corp orattort of the City of
London are so successful in discovering, in to.
fusing the evidence of a Mr. Brooks, on grounds
utterly unknown to the law, induced that indi,
victual to refuse taking the oath yesterday as the
Westminster Carat Leet, as a constable. He
c6i,„„ded that, in the capacity of constable, his
evidence might often Le indivensibl
to the con-
viction of guilt or acquittal of e
innocence ; and
that the swearing him in as constable, if his evi
donee could not he t•a k .en in a Court of Justice,
would be the means of defeating the ends of
justice. The
gentleman who presided in the
Court could not, of course, listen to any such
objections, I
secause I its business was to admi-
nister the law as it is, not to reconcile it with
Mr. Sergeant Arabia's exposition. Even if Mr.
Sergeant Arabin were in the right, it would not
have been the less imperative on the gentleman
in question to- call Mr. Brooks 'on his oath ; be-
cause he cannot enter into considerations as to
the effect the execution of the law he adminis-
ters will have. If the law allows a person to be
sworn as constable who cannot discharge a most
important duty—that of giving evidence against
offenders—it is for the Legislature to removethe
anomaly, and not the Judge. However, those
inconsistencies would not often be discovered,

but for such appeals to the public as the one al- 1
iuded to, and therefore they ought not to be dis-
couraged, were it only to impress on Judges the
necessity of making themselves masters of the
most obvious principles of the law they are
called on to administer.—Morning Chronicle.
If any thing had been wanting to justify the
strong language which we employed yesterday,
in speaking of the clubs and meetings, both Pro-
testant and Catholic, which are now holding
throughout Ireland, and are beginning to be
held in this country also, the proceedings of the
Guilds in Dublin, on Saturday last, which will
be found in another part of our paper, would
fisrnish the most complete justification. The
Protestant Clubs, as we then said, ought to be
put down, as well as the Catholic Clubs. The!!!
violence of the one has engendered violence in
the other, and both are anomalies in a well re-
gulated community—downright nuisances, with
which there ought to be no ceremony, and which
are as fatal to the well-being of Ireland as they
are subversive of its peace. The Protestant
Meeting to which we have alluded was, if any
thing, more violent than even that of the Catho-
lic demagogues. Alluding to a correspondence
which, it has been asserted, the Duke of Wel-
lington has entered into with the See of Rome, a
gentleman with the jaw-breaking name of Mr. J.
Judkin Butler, took it upon him to declare that
" he dare not do so ; and if he did, that mo-
ment he would subject himself to death and
confiscation !" Now every one knows that.
there does exist an old and obsolete statute to
that effect ; but what a spirit does it betray in
those who, at this time of day, would even think
of putting, it in force? Another 'gentleman,
with equal felicity and consistency, declared that
it was wholly useless " to attempt to conciliate
the Catholics—Aat he was as strenuous an ad-
vocate for civil and religious liberty as any man,
and it was for that reason, and because he was
efriend to the real interests of the Roman Ca-
tholics, that he would refuse them the posses-
sion of political power !" It would be vain to
attempt to expose the absurdities of such de-
clarations—they are their own best expounders,
and only require to be repeated in order to meet
with the ridicule and contempt which their non-
sense and hypocrisy deserve. But what shall we
say of the insurrectionary harangue of Alder-
man Beresford, who, not satisfied in going
over the same ground as his predeces-
sors, and asserting and re-asserting that
" the Catholics had got too much already, and
that he. would not suffer them to get more," read
his Grace of Wellington and the whole Cabinet
a round lecture on their conciliatory conduct,
and concluded by characterising them as " lo-
custs !" He feared not " the thousands and
the millions of Papists," he said ; for the avowal
of which manly sentiment he was greeted with a
round of " enthusiastic and long-continned
cheering ;" but let us for a moment put it t(
this Protestant A6'.erman, in what manner ale
peace of the country will be promoted by such
proceedings ? 'Will the Catholics become more
quiet and orderly for being told that the half
million of Protestants in Ireland do not fear
them, and whom they know they could extermi-
nate in a moment ? Nothing appears to us
more senseless than such proceedings. Ireland
contains about seven millions of inhabitants,
half a million of whom possess all the rights and
privileges of British subjects, and about six and
a half millions are deprived of them ; yet the half
million has the egregious folly to talk of its
" physical strength"--to speak of its " standing
by England," and of " England standing by. it ;"
thus provoking a spirit of retaliation where
the most conciliatory demeanour would be'both
prudent and just, and challenging those to the
combat whose mere physical weight would anni-
hilate them ! We would just hint to these ultra
gentry the propriety of lowering their tone a
little. They may depend upon it that the system
which has hitherto been pursued towards Ire-
land can be pursued no longer—that the times
of their ascendancy are gone by, and that it
would be much more prudent on their part to he
making friends than to be so earnest in doubling
the animosity of their enemies. It may appear
to them vastly clever to speak of Judos Brown-
low and Iscariot Dawson ; but they had better
not exhaust their vocabulary of abuse, lest a
higher personage than either should eventually
come in for a share of it !—Morn. Advertiser.

THE NEW MEDICAL SCHOOL OF THE

LONDON UNIVERSITY.

(From the Lancet.)

We should have rejoiced to announce the open-
ing of the new Medical School in the London
University, which is to take place on Wednesday
next, as an event likely to be marked by some in-
dications of an acquiescence in sound and en-
lightened principles on the part of those who at
present possess the power of regulating the system
of medical education in this country, and of pre-
scribing
the conditions upon which students are
permitted to become candidates for the privilege •'
of practising their piOfession. The Council of
the London University have had duties of no
ordinary difficulty to discharge. We believe that
no of have been wanting on the part of this
body to obtain from the Council of the College
of Surgeons some relaxation of those impolitic
and mischievous provisions, by which the inte-
rests of the whole profession are sacrificedfor the
sake of perpetuating a corrupt system ; -but- it is
not surprising that efforts which have been backed
by no other authority that that of reason, should
have failed to make any impression on the sur-
gical oligarchy in Lincoln's-inn-fields. Reason,
public expediency, respect for justice or public
opinixi—these are considerations of small weight
with men who seem to regard the power they
possess in no other light than as an instrument
for extracting money from the pockets of the pro-
fossion, and transferring it to their own. The
limbs of these persons are ever on the alert, but
reason can find no access to their under-
'andings. As far as any concessions from
the Council of the College of Surgeons are
concerned, the new Medical school, there-
fore, starts with no greater advantages than
those possessed by any private establishment,
conducted by teachers of acknowledged obi-
- Of such teachers the London University
posesses a fair proportiUn, and it is to be pre-
sumed that those gentlemen, whose names are
but little known in this part of the kingdom,
have not been • elected without satisfactory
evi-
dence of their competency to discharge with effi-
pieney the duties which will devolve upon them.
'Ow lectures -on surgery, as well as those on phy.
fiOlogy, will be delivered by Mr. Charles Bell,
whose merits as a profound and ingenious phy-
siologist and anatomist, are acknowledged, even
by those who have an interest in suppressing
them, namely, the foreigners, who have appro-
priated some of his discoveries.. Dr. Davis lec-
tures on midwifery and the diseases of women
and children ; and Dr. T. Thomson on lqateria-
Mediea and PhAtnntey. Thew gentlemen are
v

well known to be fully qualified for the situations
to which they have been elected ; and of Mr.
Benett, to whom the dissections and demonstra-
tions are assigned, we believe it is generally ac-
knowledged, that, for a clear and felicitous me-
thod of explaining the anatomy and physiology
of the different parts of the body, he yields to no
teacher in any public or private establishment of
this or any other country. Mr. Pattison, the
Professor of A'iiatomy and operative Surgery,
Dr. Conolly, who lectures on the nature and
treatment of diseases, and some other lectures or
branches collateral to medical and surgical.
science, are, in this country, at least, untried
men ; but if the talent which may he presumed
to have led to the election of these gentlemen,
be set against the tried mediocrity of those who
fill similar situations in some other schools, this
circumstance can hardly be regarded as disadvan-
tageous to the new Institution.

But, though the medical class in the London
University are likely to he as well instructed as
those of any other establishment, whether public
or private, there are other circumstances which
are likely to affect, for a time, the prosperity of
the new Institution. The indisposition of the
Council of the College of Surgeons to make any
abatement of illiberality, is not the only difficulty
which the medical department of the New Uni-
versity has to contend with. The Scotch Uni-
versities have refused to .recognise the certificates
of the Professors at the London University, on
the ground that the new establishment possesses
no Royal Charter; and this refusal will have the
effect of taking from the New Medical School
all, or most, of those English and Irish students,
who may be desirous of graduating in the Scotch
Universities. It is the auri sacra fames, the
hunger after pelf, which has induced the Scotch
Universities to avow their determination of re-
fusing the Certificates of the London University,
as the Council in Lincoln's Inn-fields- has been
influenced by the same unworthy motive, in de-
claring four years' hospital attendance on our
provincial hospitals to be equivalent only to six
months' attendance in a London hospital, al-
though the facilities for acquiring knowledge may
be, and for the most part are, far greater in the
fbrmer than in the latter. But the certificate
system is itself the root of the evil ; and medical
education can never be much improved in this
country, while so absurd and uncertain a test of
qualification is admitted as that which is fur-
nished by the mere possession of certificates,
which certificates are, in fact, no more than ac-
knowledgments of so much money had and re-
ceived by professors, whose interest it is to
grant such acknowledgments to all that can
pay for them, and in no case to inquire whether
the party who pays has received an equiva-
lent in instruction. In a great number of
instances, wherein certificates of diligent at-
tendance on courses of surgery and anatomy have
been'granted in this country, the professors signing
such certificates would be unable to swear in a
Court of Justice whether they had ever seen the
individual to whose diligence they have borne
written testimony. We have ourselves stated
before the Parliamentary Committee on Ana-
tomy, if we may be permitted to allude, in our
character of journalists, to the evidence we gave
in our individual capacity, an instance from which
some conclusions may be drawn as to the gene-
ral value of certificates of attendance on courses
of lectures. Such certificates prove nothing but
tke fact of a certain sum of money having been
received by the lecturer, and can never be relied
upon as evidence of the pupil's diligence, or even
of his presence at a course of lectures. The only
certain test of Oalifieation is, as we have re-
peatedly urged, a searching, bona fide examina-
tion, without reference to the time during which,
or the place where, the candidate for a medical
degree may have obtained his information, The
London University is constrained, fbr the pre-
sent, to acquiesce in the existing system ; but it
has already felt the baneful influence of that sys-
tem, and the time, we trust, is not far distant
when it will have the power, as we feel assured
it has the disposition, to co-operate with effect
in such measures as may lead to a reform of me-
dical abuses.

The expediency of supplying better instruc••
tion to the inhabitants of the metropolis than
they have hitherto been able to obtain, was the
main principle on which the project of a new
University was founded ; and this principle has
received the strongest sanction from those who
were upon another ground, perhaps honestly, op-
posed to the scheme, for they have imitated the
example of the first projectors, and embarked in
a similar undertaking. The plan of the King's
College is, all respects, save the introduc-
tion of a compulsory system of religious in-
struction, wherein it is to be assimilated to
the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, a
copy of that of the London University. The
King's College aspires to no superior advantages,
in respect to the power of granting degrees, to
those possessed by the London University ; a
circumstance which was not publicly announced
until long after the scheme had been set afloat
and largely contributed to, and which was even
then announced in so modest and retiring a para-
graph, that the fact is perhaps to this day un-
knOwn to many of the contributors. The sole
difference, then, between the plan of the London
University and that of the King's College is,
that., whereas the former will not interfere with
the religious belief of the students, or prescribe
the mode in which he may best fulfil his religi-
ous obligations, the latter will combine, with its
course of studies, a compulsory system of religi-
ous instruction. By a compulsory system of re-
ligious instruction, we mean such a system as is
pursued in the Universities of Oxford and Cam-
bridge, where, if the student neglect to attend
Chapel, and receive the Sacrament at stated
periods—a course of theology is not insisted
upon—he is subjected to
ecseerrtiapitni ablltlites
,suiffi'o-t
indeed of a very severe d
ciently annoying, in a majority of instances, to
enforce conformity.
One of the severest punish-
wilts inflicted for what is regarded in many
Colleges as one of the least venial irregularities,
namely, the omitting, from whatever motives, to
receive the Sacrament, is that of being out of
sizings and commons. This phrase, being in-
terpreted, means that the delinquent cannot
obtain his wonted hot rolls at
that lie will be breakfast
from the
college butteries, and excl del
for a time from
the common dining table. The
consequence of this
exclusion is, that he is compell-
ed
to seek his dinner at a tavern in the town, where
he is sure to waste his money and his time, and
may, by possibility, impai for bringing a
health ; an ingenious contrivance
impair
health
morals and his
thoughtless student with a pure
unde-
filed heart to the Com n Table, munio and
and recon-
ciling-him to a participation in the Lord's Sup-
per ! It would lead us beyond the objects
which fall more immediately within-the province
of a medical journal to pursiie this topic, hilt We
would put it to the candour of dime who have
enjoyed the,opposed advantages 9f a C9rilptil-

sory system of religious instruction at our Uni-
versities, to decide, whether such a system is-not
calculated to generate an indifference, rather
than an increased reverence, for religious obser-
vances. Compel a man to listen to a set form
of words, on however sacred a subject, fourteen
times a- week ; or rather, compel him to be pre-
sent at the delivery of such a form of words—for
neither law nor religibn can compel to an im-
possibility—and indifference the mildest
form of complaint with which the patient will
escape from a performance of an obligation. It
is with the piety as with the learning of most of
the young men who repair to our Universities ;
more,- we tear, is carried thither, than is com-
monly brought back from thw;e venerable esta-
blishments.

The only point, then, wherein the plans of
the London University and the king's College
di&r, is a point in which men, of whatever re-
ligious opinions, who reflect dispassionately upon
the subject, will probably be disposed to con-
clude that the former institution has the advan-
tage of the latter. But we heartily wish success
to both establishments. The patrons of each
may, for a while, take opposite directions ; but
they are destined, we believe, like travellers in a
circle,
,to arrive at the same point. Increase of
knowledge is, we trust, the common object of
both ; and increase of knowledge will itself de,
stroy the principle of intolerance which has,
perhaps, given birth to one institution, hut which
the founders of that institution vainly seek to
perpetrate.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

LIVERPOOL.

Mornay, SEPT. 29.—Wind West.—High water :38
minutes past two.—Arrived the Tinley, Hall, fiord Q►ie-
bee ; Hannah and Eliza, Taylor, from Malaga ; M.Pher-
son, from New Orleans ; Aspasia, Bennett, from New
York ; Parachute, Bitton, from Virginia ; Java, ---,
from Virginia; Yarmouth, --, from Paraiba ; Lady
Coote, from St. Vincent and St. Thomas ;
Jonge William, Janzen, from Belfast ; Clara, Redle, from
--; Science, Goodrich, from Charleston ;
from Waterford.

CLEARED OuTwAßus.---Lusitania, fur Bahia ; Mar-
wood, for Elsineur.

THE ARMY.

Horse-Guards, Sept. 29.
The General Commanding-in-Chief will hold a Levee
on Wednesday next, the first of October.

LORD FITZROY SOMERSET'S LIST.

Lord Fitzroy Somerset, as Military Secretary to General
Lord Hill, Commanding-in-Chief, went through his List
yesterday, at his. Office in the Horse Guards; A few Ge-
neral and other Officers transacted military business with
his Lordship.

A detachment of the 19tk Regiment of Foot has em-
barked at Kinsale; on board the William Harris trans-
port, for the West Indies.

Detachments belonging to•the 27th and 35th Regiments
of Infantry embarked yesterday at Portsmouth, on board
the Marshal Bennett for the West Indies.

The Hon. Colonel Molyneux is appointed Lieutenant-
Colonel of the Bth Hussars, stationed at Newbridge, county
Kildare, in room of Lord George Russell, who retires to
half-pay. The Bth Royal Irish Hussars stationed at
Newbridge, have received an order of readiness to wore.
The 70th Regiment from Cork is to he moved to Butte-
vant. Sunday a large detachment of the 77th Regiment,
from the depot in Belfast, sailed for Dublin, on their route
to join the service companies in Jamaica. A detachment
of the S3d Regiment of Foot embarked on Tuesday for
Ceylon.—Limerick Chronicle.

WESTMINSTER COURT LEET.

POINTS OF BELIEF.

Yesterday the ancient Court of Burgessrs; by
whom all Constables and other Officers for the City
and Liberty of Westminster are chosen, held the
Annual Court Leet for swearing in Constahle3 for
the ensuing year. The usual lists were handed in,
and those who answered were either sworn in, ex-
cused, or fined, as the respective cases might be ; but
one gentleman set up an excuse of rather a novel
kind. Mr. John Brooks, of Oxford-street, stationer,
on being called for the parish of St. Anne, Soho,
came forward, and, addressing the Court, said he had
no objection to the trouble and inconvenience attend-
ing the serving the office of constable, but he must
object to taking the oath always required.
Mr. ROBSON (the Clerk of the Court)—Upon
what ground do you object to take the oath
Mr. Brooks--I beg leave to inform the Court,
that, some time ago, being a witness at the Old
Bailey in a case of robbery, I was questioned as to
my belief on certain points of religion, and OH an-
swering conscientiously upon the points mentioned,
Mr. Serjeant Arabin declared that I was an unfit
person to be sworn, and that, in fact, my evidence
must be rejected. The Judge of a superior Court
having refused to suffer the oath to be administered,
I conceive that the example must he followed here
upon the same grounds.
Mr. ROBSON, sen. Ktlie Chairman)—Administer
the oath, officer; let Mr. Brooks be sworn.
Mr. Brooks—l will not submit to be sworn in
one Court when the oath has been refused to me in
another. Besides, I object altogether to being sworn
upon the New Testament.
Mr. RoßsoN, jun.—That is not a valid excuse.
The Court here know of no objection to your taking
the- oath faithfully to perform the duties of constable.
Mr. Brooks—But what is the use of my under-
taking the office of constable, when my evidence is
inadmissible in a Court of Justice, according to the
declaration of a Learned Judge ?
Mr. RonsoN, jun.—Then, Sir, you must be tined.
The same objection vas made last year by Mr.
Leigh Hut-t; but the Court decided that he was
liable, and fined him in the usual way.
The CHAIRMAN—Officer, call Mr. Brooks upon
his tine.
The officer then called John Brooks to-tome into
Court, and save his fine of 81.
Mr. Brooks—l am here, but I object to be sworn.
Mr. ROBSON, jun.—You had better take the
book, Mr. Brooks.

Mr. Brooks---No, I will not ; in the performance
of my duty as a constable, it is very probable that
my evidence may be necessary in cases extremely
important to the interests of justice. I might, for
instance, be called upon to apprehend parties con-
cerned in great offences, and be able to give testi-
mony which would go a great way towards convict-
ing the offenders ; how foolish should I then look,
and how justice would be defeated, when I appeared
in the Court at the Old'llailey, and was told by
some such sage as Mr. Justice Arabia that tny evi-
dence could not be received.

Mr. ROBSON,
.11111.-Y6u most either serve or be
fined.

Mr. Brooks—l object to be sworn.
Mr. ROIIiON, jun.—You cannot serve without
being sworn.

ilfr. Brooks—Then I cannot serve at all.
Mr. ROBSON, jun. then entered Mr. Brooks as
fined in the sum of 8/.

Mr. Brooks said he would not pay the fine, and
would resist any attempts to enforce the payment.
thereof.

Mr. Brooks is the same person who was indicted
with the Rev. Mr. Taylor for conspiracy.

KING ARTHUR.—The following anecdote is
current amongst the Court circles :—A potent monarch
of our own times, whose Council of State is headed by a
military dictator, not over remarkable for the diffidence or
humility of hie. sway, upon being indirectly solicited in
favour of an individual, who, like Sir F. WRANOE, was
willing to serve his country as well as his King, answered
the applicant by saying—"I have no patronage—you had
lioto. apply to King Atattot,"