The Sun.
London, England, 1826-06-06 00:00:00

PIGEON SHOOTING.

The inelosure at the Red House, Battersea, was thronged with
sporting characters yesterday. The attraction was the match fur
600 sovereigns between Lord Kennedy and Mr. Arrowiunith, at
100 pigeons etch, to be shot in two days. Of the irst eb birds
Mr. Arrowsnnth killed 20, and Lord Kennedy IN. The shoot-.
ing at the second 2h birds was resumed in au hour, when
Aermesmith killed 20 others, and left off three a-head upon the day 'a
rio birds. Two to one on Arrowsmith, upon the gemral match.
A match of seven double shots each, between Mr. tihoobridge
and Mr. Winslow, ended in a tie, each killing both birds in four
of the shots, and one in the other three ; and mil, killing the
two last birds by the discharge of a. single barrel only.

ASCOT-HEATH RACES.--Ftusr, Truensy, Julia O.
His Majesty's Plate of 100ga, for horses of all ages, Four miles.
Loyd Tavistock's Shadow
Mr. Wyndham'a Chateau Margaux
Mr. Scaith's Frogmore
The Ostlands Stakei of SO lova. each, 20 ft. for home of all
ages. Two miles and a half.
Duke of York 101111P4 Fairy
•
Duke of Rutland's El Dorado
-Lord Yerulatn's liptur
Lord G. IFI. awendiah's Ganymede
Mr. Rush's b. c. by Pioneer
Duke of Portland'. Mortgage
Mr. Thcobald's Strymon
Captain Standen's Thieriot
Mr. Gauntlett's Comedian
Mr. Russell'a Hougoumont
Lord Warwiek's Doable Entendre
General Grosvenor's Crockery
I)uko of Richmond's Phantasms
Mr. Grteme's Cadiz
Lord Tavistock's Leeway
Mr. Mockford's Scamper
Mr. Wyndham's Stumps
Mr. Whiteiiide's Piston
Lord 'Darlington, Lord F. Bentinck, and Mr. Lands*" tice
subseribere, but did not name.
Sweepstakes of 200 each, It. ft. for three-yr-old colts, New mites
Duke of York's by Whalebouc
•
Duke of Grafton's Bolivar
Lord Exeter's by Comus
Lord Verulam'w The Mta4etn
Mr. J. Rogere's Monarch
General Grosvenor's The General
Geueral GrosVeilor'S Pon)
Mr. Thornhill's Sophist
Mr. Wyndham's by Whalebone
Doke of Grafton 's by ,
Lord Darlington's by Whisker
Mr. Fox's Redbreast, by Perchariee
Sweepstakes of 200:each, b. ft. for three-yr-old fillies. New mile.
Duke of York's Michael
Duke of Graffito's Cremona
Lord Eteter'a by Woful
Mr. J. Rogere's Pasta
Lord G. H. Cavendish's by Partisan
Mr. Thoruhilrs by Merlin
Mr. Fox's by Magistrate
Mr. Wyndham's Sister to Pinwire
Sweepstakes 01100 sovs, each, b. ft. for three-if-old colts. New

Duke of York's by Whalebone
Duke Grafton's c. Norman
Mr. J. Ilogers'a Waterman
Lord G. 11. Cavendish's by Allegro
wroNEsilay.
Ili, Royal !figlmmo the Duke of York's Male d5Ol. for all sec.
To Start at the distance post, and go ours rowel Rod a distance.
Alockfuril'a Velasquez
Duke of Grafton's. Nigel
Lord Claretultues Brother to
The Albany Stakes of 40 soy,. each, h. ft. for three-yr-ola
Tim New Mile.
Duke of York's Elisabeth
..Dukk eejja.oonffi
tres ita:niffitt
oc:kiipluttw:cas.7lNl
ititissooair:lrtun
hu
Jonesl4 “
Mr
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The sl:fliater` lyAsnallikt:steosflNnt:lo°':d,, The last Ws and half.
Duke of Grasp**. BoulJ"r*
Mr. Hervey* .[drib;`'
fl, T"i"4,2 Oreeveuerlir, rears
Lordavisteek's Lowey

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY EXTRACTS FROM THE MORNING PAPERS,

JLJWB 6, 1826.

[Tux Timms.)

We alluded yesterday to the eager diligence with
which this general election is seized upon, as an op-
portunity for the excitement of a " No Popery"
cla-
rnnur. Among the raisers of the cry, there are, no
doubt, some honest alarmists—descendants, at least
intellectual representatives, of those worthy persona,
who, in a former century, were one and all ready to
make oath that horns and tails were as natural to a
Papist as to any black ox in Smithfield. Others there
are, fanatics of a milder here, who read just so much
of political and religious history as leads them to an
initialed knowledge of facts, and to a convenient 1
ignorance of principles ; a sort of reading, through
which they learn to persuade themselves that the
cruelties and persecutions inflicted by two belligerent
churches during a single,age of barbarism, are exclusive
characteristics of one of the said churches, under all
circumstances, and to all ages, no matter how civilized
or enlightened. This sort of reading, and a process
of reasoning quite worthy of it, satisfies the well-dis-
posed partisans of " No Popery," that Catholics will
at any tin& violate the most solemn oath, if desired to
do so by their priest, or absolved by him from the
guilt of perjury for breaking it. But to believe this
wonderful proposition, another exercise of credulity
still more edifying, is altogether indispensable ; for the
disciples of No Popery on this ground must, if they
are not guilty of- the grossest inconsistency, believe
that the Catholics are not now deterred by scruples . of
• conscience from taking the oaths which actually keep
them out of Parliament ; for if they could be absolved
by their' priests from the sin of perjury where it suited
their worldly interest or the policy of their church,
why, in the name of Ileeven, Should they now, fir a
whole century, have excluded themselves from both
Houses of. Parliament,: when it was nothing but
" swear and walk in," applying the next minute to- the
reverend, priest for abaolution ? We have never yet
seen or heard of a plausible answer attempted by No
Popery to this direct and simple question. Again, it
is a fear entertained or professed by worthy men who
talk about being familiar with history, that Ca-
tholies are not to be trusted as subjects of a Protestant
Sovereign, when the interests Of their church, and the
crimmunds of hie :Holiness, run in opposition to such
political duty. To this we answer, that as for centus
lies before the Reformation the Catholics of England
were generally fusel deal to. the King and State of Engs
land, and supported zealously the cause of both in
:resistance to the demands, the threats, and encroach-
Ments of the Court of Rome, so, since the Reforma-
tion, during the reigns of eleyen Sovereigns, the Ca-
tholics of this realm
;have exhibited a loyalty to the
ProteStant Sovereign not less. eminent and uninter-
rupted, sofiss os the Ave was concerned, than their
ancestors had done many preceding generations. If
the argument has any meaning it must be this,—that
where the interest of the'State comes into a conflict
with
.the orders of the Roman Pontiff, a good Catholic
will prefer the spiritual authority to the temporal ; but
is it not a matter quite pregnant through all history,
is it not a fact (rote obvious at the present day, that
the. See of Koine bum had many poiuts, at issue with
Catholic Princes in every part of Europe' in all which
cases,. without exception, the hotly of lay Catholics
have maintained the rights of their own Government
in contravention of those of the Pope P. , Is not this
arument tine which would go to deny the allegiance
oft a Cathalic to any temporal power, whether the so-
vereign be Protestant or Catholic like himself? But
the'Catholica everywhere disavow :such a charge !by
the most solemn assurance's and 'declarations, as they
have stoutly opposed the Papal pretensions to tempo-
ral prerogative m their note. All the • universities of
the Continent transmitted to this country, when ap-
plied to by Mr. Pitt, the most distinct disclaimer of
any right in the holy See to meddle with their tem-
poral obligations: ant!, however the priests and Je-
;mita may strive to equivocate on this question, we see
how othous and how impotent are their endeavours,
indignantly spurned .t<s they are before our eyes, by the
common sense and Is slings of those nations against
whom their experiments have been directed. It is
said furthermore by very good peole, that the'lrish
Catholics would wrest the landed property, con-
fiscated as it was near two centiiries. ago, from the
lunndh which now retain it. Whys then, are they
fouls enough to buy the estates, the design to take
which by force they are accused of—paying the full
market-price in every instance, for the Protestant
titles, which they have thus resolved to overturn ?,---
f let., finally, we are told the Catholics are never satis-
fied. a Give them one thing, and the next day they
come upon you with sonic fresh exaction." And so
it ought to be : any man who Contents himself with
lose then entire freedom is a slava in grain, and de-
berves to be trampled on fornvers We edit once more
—and it is worth being repeated every day that poets,
over our head—you cannot exterminate (1,000,000
of Catholics : while you treat them as criminals, you
sever can convert them froth Popery—while you treat
them as enemies, you dispose them to become sot--.
you 13y up inexhaustible Inel for eternal war—pm
scan never enjoy the sweets of peace, nor 'enforce upon
the Government the palpable necessity of reduced
estalilialunente. Keep the Catholics in bondage,- what,
tt stigma you east upon a Protestant state-s—that it is
one which can be no 'otherwise maintained, but by
permit:idiom equally terrible. with those on a success-
lid resistanee 'to which it botista of having been
linnuled I What an insult to the= name of Christen-
dom, that 100,000,000 of it, inhabitants are 'MeV-
ahle of the first duty of subjects I What an outrage
it to this grand festival of a frececommunity, when
we choose delegates for the maintenance of our dearest
rights AS a nation, that the first lesson read to them,
end the most solemn condition imposed Upon them,
is that of barring tint frimi'the Constitution Eng.
land onc-third of the whole body or their fallmvs
risers We had intended to begin this t. l
ar e
oetieing an admirable address: " to the electors isposi
the Catholic question, by the .11ey. :Sydney Smitl."
cones cnes oppernmely as an antidote to poisons i„di
s-
triously, and we liar too successfUlly, circulated. ,Vos
the execution of tlds.' little performance,: it is impns
sible to say too touch ir vivacity, wit, and spirit, wo4d
he, looked for of course from such a quarter but thsre
is 'a
great deal more than those : there is a straigllt.
forward and irresistible truth----there is demonstratiim
in. every hue of it—these is, howdes, a tone of deap,
ihough ulossmatiosis, and subdued anxiety for the
essoi of national justice, which tells upon the better

feeling's, and a spirit of candour and humanity, by
which it is impossible for any reader to be otherwise
than benefitted as well as touched.

[MORNING POST.]

The Protestant Electors of England will, we arc
persuaded, prove' them Selves, at this important sea-
son, ardent and unchangeable in their attachment
to the Constitution, firm of purpose, sound in heart
and understanding, uncontaminated by the • hollow
cant, unenfeebled by the spurious liberality to which
the fashion of the day has lent its 'ephemeral and.
delusive sanction. They will not show themselves
ungrateful and prodigal possessors of the valuable
legacy bequeathed them by their brave ancestors ;
or, by a base surrender of the precious inheritance,
insult the memory and undervalue the sufferings and
the blood of those by whom it was originally,acquired.
Neither will they forget, that they are no other than
trustees of the invaluable patrimony,--a patrimony, not
created by their exertions, or won by their valour ;
that those who fought, and bled, and died, or en-
dured sufFeringS infinitely more trying than death; to
the mortal fraine, did all this, not for sake of them-
selves, not for sake of two or, three generations of their
progeny; but in the proud consciousness or ardent hope,
that all which they did and suffered was for the benefit
of their most remote posterity. The. electors of the
present day most feel that they are merely tenants
for life of the splendid inheritance, and they will
not consent to intercept the order of succession, to
waste the precious patrimony, or fraudulently to cut
off the sacred entail. It is pretended that the Catho-
lics may be safely entrusted with a share in the Govern-
ment and Legislature of the Empire, because,
for-
sooth, the boasted liberality of modern times has shed
its mild influence upon the tenets of their church, or
at least upon the hearts, the tempers, and the under-
standings of its votaries. if this were true, the Pro-
testant Electors of England would no longer have the
same strong objections to the admission of Catholics
to wield the power of the Constitution. To have
any weight, however, it must not only be true, but it
must be established by strict and demonstrative
proofs. Where, we ask, are the proofs ? Let them be
produced in rich 'abundance and unanswerable
strength ; fir assuredly the present generation of
Englishmen will not outrage their ancestors, and be-
tray their posterity on any grounds of vague
conjecture, of specious presumption, or of doubtful
hypothesis. So far as the 'Catholic Church is
concerned, the assertion cannot be proved ; it is
plainly and necessarily false ;—the church which be-
lieves it cannot err will, nut change ;—it must be the
to-day,same yesterday, and for ever; the assumption
of infallibility, excludes the possibility of improve-
ment. Then with respect to her votaries, if it could
be proved that the spirit of the age had shed its mild
influence upon theM, though it,might weaken the ob-
jection to their claims, it would not obviate it. What
is, to ensure the permanent effect of this mild influence
from without, upon the minds of men, who still obsti-
nately cleave to the bosom of an infallible and Un-
changeable Church, whose characteristics have ever
' been fierceness and cunning ? Whilst they remain in
her fold, are They not constantly subject to the impress
of her mark and the dominion of her tenets and cha-
racter ? 'But the proof of this assertion, however satis-
factory or complete, if it in some degree weakened ,the
Ibree,of one objection to their claims, would unavoida-
bly suggest another. Why, it would naturally be
asked, do they openly adhere to a church, from the
doctrines, and temper, and character of' which,' their
hearts are already estranged P Whilst their adhesion
wire conscientious, it would be fairly said, they had a
claim to the general respect of the community,
although the general safety might forbid their
admission to an equality of political power. lint
now that , their public profession of Catholicism
is by their own avowal, and by other proofs,
shown to be distinct from any warm attach-
ment to the principles and spirit of the Catholic
church, we must, look upon them as contumacious ;
and we will not yield to contumacy what we de
hied to conscience. This is the true ' answer to
those Who Artfully strive, with a view to the admis-
sion of Catholics to political power, to separate the
lay from the ecclesiastical portion of that body,
and who would persuade us that the tenets and
temper of the Church are nut to be taken as any
criterion of the opinions and feelings which actuate
its votaries. Such advocate§ would be fatal even
to a better cause. The electors of England
are not likely to be propitiated in favour of the
Catholic laity by being' told, that they are gene-
rally insincere, as it respects their own religion,
and not conscientious, but contumacious in their
rejection of ours. We hear the electors called upon
from certain quarters to prefer candidates who pledged
themselves in favour of economy and retrenchment,
without regard to the great: constitutional question in-
volved in the Catholic claims, or in other words, to
neglect a great and impending danger, in order to
guard against one which would be comparatively trivial,
if it were not altogether imaginary. They will have
manly sense mid patriotic feeling enough to scorn the
drivelling suggestion. Even if there existed a dispo-
sition
to extravagance on the-part of Administration,
which every body possessed of the least information
knows to' be the reverse of the fact, still Englishmen
would mot consider it the first of their duties 'upon this
occasion to counteract that tendency. They will not
listen to the base and senseless advisers, who would
lead them to " sell their birthright for a mess of pot-
tame 1"

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BOW-StREET.--41'SZAT IN PA ItLIAMYNT.-411t night; at
eight o'clock, Mr. William CoWith littsoi nguin brought Wive the
Magistrahis of this Of►ce, and tint uge of his obtaining 1,1001.
from Colonel Canute of the Horse Guards, under tl►e fuNa itre-
tent* of obtaining for him a seat in Parlistnent, was further in..
mitigated.

Mr. Awl:virus said, that before the evidence was called, he
would take that opportunity of observing, that in the reports in
the newspapers of the examination of Mr. Collins, which took
place hot Saturday night, it was stated, that:he ha 4 replied " Non-
sense, nonsense," to some remark made by Mr. Phillips. Such
words had been considered t& have been used by him offensively ;
but he assured the Bench, that he want nothing disrespectful to
his. Learned Friend. Ile did not pretend to lay he did, not ustt
,the words, fur he was in the habit of replying " nonsense," ht the
lame sense as the Duke of Marlborough, when asked a question,
commonly used the word "silly." For instanCe—if the Duke was
"40 by a Clkaetal, " Shall we march to such a place?" he would
reply, " Silly, !illy."
Mr. Putt.t.t es raid the words were spoken very good-naturedly,
or he 411001. have noticed them at the time.

Mr. Ainmenus-.Ylike to set these things right as I go.
Mr. Joseph fink stated, that hu is a clerk in the Banking-
house of Messrs. Drummond, Charing-cross. Witness produced
check for
.1 which was • paid into Drummond's bank on
Ole imlt• of May, and the bearer received thirty-Mur Mg; notes
fur the eheck• It was drawn by Cox and Greenwood, the army
syrits, Rn. Messrs, Drummond, and wee payable to the bearer.
w Mess lure gays,the untidier. and dates of the notes which he
paid for the Oieek.
Mr.
I'HILL"'"'"-Thie is the first time I have heard of the

name of Cox and Greenwood, so connected with this case, am
how this check comes here I can't conceive. . _

Mr. Virxr.t. observed, that his clerk went to Drummond's with
the check, and received the thirty-four 60/. notes in exchange,
which he (Mr. Well) gave to Collins.
Mr. Pulturs.—But how the check was obtained- by the
Colonel, or how it got out of his possession, We don't know, and
be won't tell us. _ .

Mr. ADOLPTILTS.—Pray what is it to you how he got the check
-•-suppose he stole it? he paid it to Mr. Well, and that gentle-
min got the thirty-four fifty pound notes for it at Drummonds',
which Collins obtained by false pretences from him, sad that is
the charge we make.
Mr. Well sworn.—The check produced by tlw last witness
was received by me from Colonel Camac.
Mr. l'unms.—l ask you, Mr. Well, whether the payment
of this sum of 1,7007. to Collins, was to conclude the business to
which it related?

Mr. Well.—l decline answering.
Mr. Pmwrs.—Good God! can there be any reason on earth
for your refusing to answer the question?
Sir RICHARD ButNa—As Solicitor to Colonel Camac, Ido
not think Mfr•. Well is bound to answer the question. Ile ought
not to be compelled to disclose confidential communications,
which were made to him on behalf of his client.

Mr. Minsuut.t. was of the same opinion.
Mr. PHILLIPS-. 4 have put the question as abstractedly as pos-
sible, and he ought to say, when he tenders himself as a witness,
whether the 1,7001. was to close the business, or whether more
money was to have been paid.
Mr. Awn-runs—He does not choose to say that that was all
the money we were to have been robbed of.
Mr. PIIILLIPS--What is the reason, Mr. Well, that you re-
fuse to answer my question ?—Mr. Well : I will not give a
reason why I decline answering.
Mr. Puiturs—lt does not look well when evidence is kept
back. ' _

Mr. llyde sworn—Witness is Clerk in the Bank of England.
On the 11th of May, thirty-four bank of England notes, of 601.
each (witness gave the dates and numbers, which corresponded
with those paid by Mr. Well to Ms. Collins), were brought to
the Tellers' Office, by a nisi of genteel appearance, who asked to
have sovereigns for them. The prisoner is About the size of the
person, but witness soul(' not say be was the person ; the indivi-
dual wore his hat at the time (the prisoner was directed to put
his hat on); but he could not make oath that the prisoner was
the men ; whoever the person was, he brought the thirty-firm
notes to the table with his name written, as is customary, on the
outside note, and received sovereigns for them ; witness, on ex-
amining the thirty-four notes which he produced, found 44 F. W.
Collins" written on the Outside one; witness extracted the num-
bers of the notes from the Bank book.

Mr. Pimmrs contended that the Bank book ought to have
been produced, and not a mere extract.
Sir R. Ilinxix thought, that, at such a late hour, the Learned
Counsel ought not to preis for better evidence.
Mr. AnoLiltus—The witness proves that a person like the
prisoner, in size and appearance, received 1,7001. in sovereigns
for the thirty-four 501. notes, which were paid by Mr. Well to
the prisoner.
_ _

Mr. Pinuars—Why do you say the person was about the size
and like. the prisoner ?--Witneaa : He was a man of genteel ap-
pearance.

Mr. Pntturs—ls it a very uncommon tl►ing for a genteel-
look ;lig man to come to the Bank to exchange notes for, sovereigns?
Witness : It is not uncommon, but it is very unusual for a person
to exchange thirty-four bOl. 'iota) for 1,700 sovereigns; in fact,
it is so uncommon a circumstance, that it never happened before
at the Bank.

Mr. PIIILLIPS—Do you mean to assert that persona have not
exchanged notes to a large amount for sovereigns ?--Witness: I
do not ; but I mean to assort, that on no occasion has so large a
sum in sovereigns ever been paid at the Bank to a private indivi-
dual for notes.

Mr. ADOLPHUS Said, that, he should call no other evidence
that night, but should ask for another examination on Wednes-
day night next, by which time the witnesses would arrive from
Malmesbury.

Mr. PHILLIPS observed, that the witnesses ought to have been
produced then, u Mr. Well undertook to go'himself to Malmes-
bury, cad to bring the witnesses to town. He had been de-
ceived by Mr. Well, whose cross-examination had been defer-
red expressly on the ground that he was going to leave town to
fetch the witnesses, and he also had to complain that Colonel
Comae was not brought forward to give evidence, which.
cumstances had occasioned---to use no harsher term•--unneces-
rary

Mr. Minstiou.--That term is qu►teharsh enough. ,
Mr. Puttoors—l might have said, and truly, that there• had
been gross equivocation.
Mr. MtwattuLt.--Are the witnesses, Mr. Well, on their way
to London?—me. well; They are.
Mr. Putr.r.trs..;.-When did you send for thein?--Mi. Well ; I
sent my clerk on Friday for them.
Mr. Putuars—What are their names ?—Mr. Well: Seal and
Neat.—Mr. PHILLIPS pressed Mr. Well to reply to a question re.-
lating to the Malmesbary affair; but be, with some warmth, de-
clared that he would not answer another question.
Sir Rieman') illawin—That is the safest way.
Mr. Names—The .truth.mast come out some time or other.
The prisoner was then remanded to St. Martin's watch-house
till Wednesday evening, when his final examination will take
place. The office was crowded.

MAItLBOTIOTICI.II-FITHERT.--;Nestorday a meagre, miser-
able, half-animated looking " snob," named. Thomas Evans,
whose appearance was calculateeto•excite any other feeling rather
than the passion of love, was brought before Sir Gra FARRANT,
the Magistrate, from the watchhouse of St. Atiu's parish, BOho,
in company with a smart, comely-looking, married woman, named
Mulhern' the former charged with lutving'occupied the pines) of
Mrs. Mulhernis'husband on Sunday night last, in the affections
and bed of that lady, and the latter charged with an over-hos-
pitable disposition, in giving to Mr. Evans, the shoemaker, that
portion of her bed which was generally allotted to her lawful
husband.

u
The husband of Mrs. MuMeru, who is a gentleman's servant,
and a very fine-looking young lean, a perfect contrast to his rival,
being sworn, stated, that fur some time pant, his wife and himself,
with their only child, have lodged in a house in Compton-street,.
Soho, where Mr. Thor. Evans, who is a " translator' or mender
of old shoes, also happens unfortunately to be a sojourner. There
was no particular intimacy or acquaintance that he Was aware of
between any part of his family and Mr. Evans, nor did he ever
suspect that Mr. Evans had used any means, or indeed was ut all
likely, to undermine the affections of Mrs. Mu%ern, sr any other
woman, towards her husband. On Sunday night, ,however, or
rather about two o'clock on yesterday morning, he (the husband)
returned home, after having been engaged as usual all the previous
day with his master's family, and on going up stairs, to his asto-
nishment and horror, when he entered the apartment where his
wife was in bed, he found her and the " snob," Mr. Thomas
' 4
Evans, fest locked hi each other's arms. After a moment's thougnt,
he reflected upon t'he happy unconsciodsneas of their situation, and
being unwilling to disturb their repose abruptly, or at all events
Until he hint some other witness to the fact of his wife's inconti-
nence besides himself, doubting, perhaps the reality of the Beene
presented to his vision ; and aceordinFly he left the happy 'pair
together, While he Went and quietly introduced a neighbouring
watchman, to whom he exhibited unequivocal proofs of Mrs.
Mulhern's frailty, and Mr. Evans% nocturnal gallantry. Ile then
gave both the violate,re of hie bed into the watchman's custody,
and after affording them barely huflicient time to -scatter a few
loose garments Over their sinful carcasses, had them conveyed to
the ‘vateldumse, and there left them in separate cells to pass the
remainder of the night, ruminating on the instability of all human
happiness.

watchnian who. took Charge of the parties said, that he
could fully confirm Mr. Mulhern a complaint, air to his wife. in-
fidelity, at least as far as appearances had any weight ; and more-
over, he said that a more impudent woman, after detection in
such a situation, than Mrs. Mulhern, never could have existed at
any period of the world, for that while Mr. Evans and herself
were dressing before being taken to the watehhouse, she rushed
into his arms in the presence of her husband, curl kissed him se-
veral times, in the most barefaced manner ; alter which, the
turned to her husband, and placing her thumb upon the tip of her
nose, said to him, " There, Mr. Mulhern, take your change out
of that."
The Magistrate now asked Mr. Thomas P.vans,.....who either
from the effects of love, or of mending shoes, or fright, or what
else, seemed scareely able to keep his legs in a perpendictilar posi-
tion under him,',--what he had to say in explanation of his very
immoral and improper intrusion on the premises and bed of the
complainant.
Mr. Evai,.. said that the fact. was. Mrs. Mulhern had for some
time past made love to him, in finch a bewitching and seductive
manner, that on Sunday night when she gave him en invitation,
in the most intelligible terins to her bed in the absence of her
husband, he
tion tod,
reject 'could not, be confessed, muster up sufficient resolu-
her ;offer; in short he said, no loan could resist Mrs.
munierie,s
wianialf
ways, if he had any love at all in him, And
that,was all lie had to say.
her own behalf, did not at all mince the nutte.
ter, but said, that she had a right, at least the thought so, to: di.-
pose of herself and her bed as she deemed proper, without any

busybody troubling her on. the subject; and as for Mr. Mulhern,.
she had very little of hiisociety at home, so she supposed he
amused himself elsewhere. -Re allowed her but very little out of
his wages, and she was obliged to work hard for her own support,
arid she should do as she liked with herself; "no thanks to nobo-
dy :" and as for Mr. Evans, whatever people might think by his
looks, she would say, that for a shoemaker, he was as nice a man
as she would wish to meet with.

Muihern, the husband,said, that nothing could equal the false-
hood and base ingratitude of his wife ; for as .to his not support,.
ing her, he declared that he had always iven her the greater part
of his earnings, to support herself and Ins child, while he himself
was obliged, of course, to be nut all day attending upon his master.
The circumstance, too, he said, under which he had married this
woman, five years ago, ought, one would think, to have attached
her to him, if eveuponly from a feeling of gratitude. The truth
was, he said, that they had both lived in the•serviee of one family
when they first became acquainted; and' one night after they first
met, he was much surprised to receive an unexpected visit in his
bed-room from the young woman,- who insisted upon remaining
there during the night : to this lie, unfortunately for himself, con-
sented, and the consequenee was, that a gradual increase of the
lady's size was becoming apparent, when, to save her character,
and make her an honest woman, he agreed to marry her at once,
which he did in opposition to his own interests at the time ; and
her present conduct was the grateful reward she bestowed upon
him : but he was determined now never to live another day with
her.

Sr GEORGE FARRANT said that it was a grievous thing cer-
tainly for the young man to be tied to such an ungrateful and
abandoned women, and it was very creditable to the husband that
he restrained himself from any violence on the parties, when he
found them in the situation he described. He (Sir George) would
advise the husband to advertise the wife's conduct, so as to pre-
vent, as far as he could, her obtaining credit in his name. The
immediate cause of complaint was one with which a Magistrate
had no power to interfere, and the parties must therefore be dis-
missed, which they were accordingly.
MARYLEBONE,---Johnll, of 25, Lisson-place, was yes-
terday charged with the following inhuman conduct to his wife :
Mr. Cowne, surgeon, of Portman-place, stated, that on Satur-
day night he was sent for to assist the delivery of the prisoner's
wife. He was from home when the message came, and when he
arrived she had been delivered two hours. He found her in a
Chair, exhausted, and in great danger; the husband, in a state of
'intoxication, had dragged her from her bed, and hiniself taken
possession. He found a woman there, also in liquor, who profess-
ed to be a midwife. On remonstrating with the prisoner, he re-
ceived nothing but abuse ; he, therefore, sent him to the witch-
house in charge. The woman is still in, a precarious state. The
child is dead; and as Mr. Cowne is doubtful whether the death
of the child was net occasioned by the inability of the female mid-
wife, through intoxication, anti as the effect of the husband's con-
duct is not yet ascertained as regards hie wife, Mr. Rawlinson
remanded him.

UNION-HALL—A Gnotrr.----Yesterday morning an elderly
wan of respectable appearance pre►ented himself, and requested to
be heard, while be gave an account of an extraordinary apparitiOn
that appeared to him the previoui night, at his lodgings, giving
him intimation of a murder that had been committed in the house.
some time ago. Theapplicant *aid his name was Dunn, and that
he lodged at a respectable house in Tooley-street. Mr. Dunn,
who seemed to be under considerable agitatiOn, proceeded to state,
with all the earnestness and solemnity of tone imaginable, that on
Sunday night, before the clock 'truck 12, while lying in hie bed
alone, he first heard the sounds of footsteps pacing up and down
close to his bed-side. lie at first thought a thief bad entered the
room, and accordingly raised himself in order to have a look at
the intruder. Instead, however, of a thief, be beheld a personage
that frightened him much more, and that watt a tall grave-lOoking
figure, dressed in deep black. Ile stared at the object for some
time without the power of utterance, until at length the superna-
tural being, as he was now convinced it was, broke silence first,
and in a hollow sepulchral tone exclaimed, " Wetherell, clean
my boots and prepare my supper." Applicant was about to
speak, and kept his eyes steadily fixed on .the apparition, when,
lo," said Mr. Dunn, " I saw it vanish through the wall, as
plain as I now see your Worship sitting in that chair."
Mr. CHAM tans here interrupted the narrator, observing, that
his imagination must have been rather disordered on the night in
question; and asked him whether he had gone to bed drunk or
sober ?

Applicant—l can assure you that I was as sober and as per-
fectly collected then us I am at this moment.

Well, then, (said Mr. CHAMBERS), what more have you to say
about this cock-and-bull story of a ghost?
The applicant appeared highly incensed at the outset of his tale
having gained so little credit. He, however, declared that every
syllable he uttered was true, and proceeded to give a further ac-
count of his nocturnal visitor. " When," said he, " I saw the
apparition vanish, I mustered up the courage and resolution to
jump out of bed, with the intention of opening the windoW shut-
ter., to admit the rays from the gas-lamp, but had scarcely made
one stride from the bed-side, when the spectre made its appearance
again, and really I don't know whether I was standing on my
head or my heels at the time, from terror; but this I know, after
being composeda little, it addressed me in a solemn tone, saying,
"I am the ghost of a murdered man-...my body is not far from
hence—seek it anti you shall find it;" then waving its hand, and
afterwards pointing down below, it vanished front my sight through
the wall, as it had done before.", , -
" Well," said Mr. CHAMBERS,. " what have I to do with your
story of the ghost ? You interrupt the public business of the
office, and I would recommend you to hasten home and search
after the body of the dead man."
ApplictintThat I cannot do by myself, and the object of my
application is to have the assistance of a police officer, and I have
no doubt the bloody affair will be all brought to light.'
It was evident to all that the poor man.wae labouring under a
delusion of mind ou the above subject ; and he repeatedly said
during the statement, he was convinced that all who heard him
would set him down as a madman, hut notwitludanding what
people might think, he was ready to make oath that he gave a
true and accurate account of the eircumatimets ; and if the Magi-
ettate would condescend to accompany him home, and sit up in
the room all night; he had no doubt 'dm spectre would again ap-
pear and justify the above particulars.
Mr. CHAMBERS declined Arying the experiment, and the appli-
cant went away sadly disappointed, saying that he should apply at
other offices for the assistance of the police in unravelling the
mysteries of the ghost.

It has been ascertained that, independent of the
county of Lanark, there were upwards of 30,000 operatives put of
employment in the counties of Renfrew, Ayr, .Dumbarton, Stirling,
and Forfar. This is an appalling fact, and must carry along with
it an irresistible appeal to the public of Edinburgh and other
places, who, it is to be feared, are not sufficiently aware of the ex-
tent of misery that at present exists in this country.—Edinburgh
Observer.
ROBBING A HIGHWAYMAN.-- ( Pro m Reynolds's Memoirs. )--.# My brother Jack, late one evening in January,
proceeding in his gig to Southbarrow, was stopped on Bromley
pal by a highwayman, who, presenting a pistol, furiously de-
manded his money. I will not say that Jack took, fright, but hie
horse did, and, with a violent plunge, gallOpped off at full ape* The highwayman', foot being struck by the wheel, he was im-
mediately unhorsed, and dashed on the ground ; while his horse,
now left to his own guidance, mechanically followed the vehicle.
Jack, in total ignorance of the whole
proceeding, bearing the
horse behind the gig, naturally eonchided the highwayman was in
e
full pursuit, and expected every moment to have his brains blown
out. HoWever, On entering the town, he discovered his error,
to his great relief; and stopping at the inn, and desiring to speak
to the landlord, he related the circumstance, and then delivered
the horse to him; and ordering it to he immediately advertised ac-
cording to the usual form—, If not owned nor demanded within
ten days from the slate hereof, it will be peremptorily sold to pay
expences.' As may be eupposed, the horse was
neither owned
nor claimed, so therefore sold; end Jack, pocketing the affront
cleared upward,* of 80/. by whit he called 'robbing u highway_
num."!

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