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JIBBEWAYS.—EGYPTIAN HALL.—The

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FREE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND.

show how the Free Church had come out of this testing
process. To the principles the Church had announced
they had adhered, and without one iota of modifi-
cation they intended to adhere.—(Cheers.) He should
not attempt to carry the meeting back ixto the wide
controversy by which these principles came into conflict.
But he would say that they were the distinguishing
principles of the Reformation.--(Cheers.) The essence
of the Reformation was that it recognised the Word of
God. The work of Luther might be described as this:
that he recovered the great standard of truth and duty,
and the only infallible rule of faith. He ditablished the
great principle that God alone was the guide of con-
science. On these principles they had seceded. But
he contended that they had seceded as a Church.—
(Hear.) It was as a Church that they sought the decision
of the Legislature; both legally and constitutionally the
Free Church claimed to be the Church of Scotland They
had no intention of troubling the Legislature with that
question now.—(lmmense cheerinz, several times re
newed.) As long as duty required it, they had sought
to nducetheLegislature to grant them protection against
the decisions of the courts of law, by which their rights
and liberties were trampled under foot. It would seem
not an impossible thing to get from the Legislature a
protection against the decisions of courts of law when
those decisions deprived Arians and Unitarians of the property
they had usurped and applied to purposes different to those
which the owners intended. Protection from the Legislature
against these decisions could be obtained. There was a Bill
then before Parliament, laid on the table of the House of Lords
by the Lord Chancellor, practically for the purpose of subvert-
ing the decisions of courts of law, because those decisions took
from heretics property that never ought to have been theirs,
and which they misapplied to the propagation of deadly errors.
But when they went to obtain protection against decisions
which tramelled their movements, and thwarted their efforts to
evangelize the waste places of their native land, then no legis-
lation to protect them could be obtained. The decisions of the
courts of law were enforced with the utmost rigour • on the
principle of those decisions, the Home Secretary laid down,
gave the judgment of Parliament, and said that the principles
which the courts of law had condemned, he was determined to
extinguish. How far he had succeeded let the prosperity of
the Free Church in Scotland tell !—(Loud cheers.) Let its
600 ministers, its 200 probationers, its 3,000 elders, and its
million of people, tell!—(Cheers.) In proportion to the popu-
lation, this was the same as if 5,000 ministers, and six or seven
millions of people, had seceded from the Church of England.
•Let this tell how far the Home Secretary had succeeded. Let
the meetings in England—let such meetings as the present
tell how successful he wm.—(Cheers.) The Established
Church, as it remained, had excommunicated Christendom ;

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A public meeting of the friends of the Free Church
of Scotland was held last evening at Exeter. Hall, for the
purpose of receiving, from a deputation from the Free
Church of Scotland, a statement of the present condi-
tion and prospects of that Church, with the view of rais-
ing a 'contribution towards the expense of erecting new
places of worship for those congregations which, by the
secession from the Establishment, are left without church
accommodation. The meeting was very fully attended,
the hall and galleries being crowded. A large propor-
tion of the meeting consisted of ladies. P. M. Stewart,
Esq., M.P., presided.
The following gentlemen, being members of the de-
putation, were present :—Rev, Dr. Makellar, Dr.
Forbes, Dr. Candlish, Dr. Wilson, Dr. Buchannan,
Messrs. Beith, Wallace, Smith, Alexander, 'Tweedie
Cowe, Main, Buchan, C. J. Brown, Sir James Forrest,
Bart., of Comiston ; W. H. Cranford, Esq , of Cranford-
land ; James Bridges, Esq. ; Alexander Thompson,
Esq., of Banchory, and Dr. Mushet. There were also
present the Rev. Dr. Alder, Dr. Jenkins, Dr. Leifchild,
Dr. Jenkins, Dr. Campbell, Dr. Bennett, Dr. Bunting,
Dr. Henderson, Hon. and Rev. B. W. Noel, Rev. J. Hamil-
ton, Rev. Mr. Sherman, Rev. Mr. Cubitt, Rev. P. Los
rimer, Rev. Mr. Roxburgh, &c , &c. The following
gentlemen of the lay friends of the- church were also
present : Captain Macintosh, R. Saul, J. Nisbet,
W. Hamilton, J. Robertson, Townley, D. Wither-
spoon, J. Finlalson; Thomas Farmer, C. Virtue,
G. Webster, Alexander Gillespie, William Brownley,
W. Stevenson, Esqrs.; and Major Jervis, &c., &c.
The proceedings of the meeting having been opened
by a prayer from the Rev. Dr. Jenkins,
The CHAIRMAN called attention to the objects of the
meeting. The question to be submitted to them was not
one that could be confined within the limits of Scotland
or England. It was a momentous question affecting
every Christian in the world. He was not going to
trench on the business of those around him—that was
in abler hands than his; but one point he must refer to.
He had the privilege of glancing at the characters of
those who had come as the deputation from Scotland.
This was no slight point. What an evidence had they
not offered of their sincerity, by giving up all their
worldly endowments, to which they refused to sacrifice
religious liberty and spiritual independence for the sake
of expediency. These were the men to whom they were
asked to listen. They were there, not to plead for them-
selves, but for the destitute congregations left in the
wilderness without shade or shelter. Eight hundred
congregations came out from the Establishment, and for
these congregations 500 churches had been built, or were
about to built. They had, therefore, still to provide for
200 or 300 congregations. This was the cause they came
to plead for, and he was sure that the efforts of those
who were to address them would be both successful and
convincing. He then called on
Dr. MARELLAR, late Moderator of the General Assem-
bly of the Church of Scotland, who addressed the meet-
ing. He said though the nature of the events that had
taken place in Scotland was becoming better known in
England, still some explanation of the objects of their
mission was necessary. They came as a deputation from
the Church of Scotland—not from the Church of Scot-
land as by law established ; with that they had no con-
nection ; they differed with it in spirit, in character, and
in proceedings. He did not use this language in an
offensive sense ; their controversy with that Church was
one of principle, not of passion. They envied not that
Church its possessions. Their object was not to set up
a rival Church -, they wished to constitute a real Church.
—(Cheers.) And that the Free Church was the real
Church of Scotland was proved by reference to the books
of their Church, the proceedings of its General Assem-
blies, the history of the Church, and to the constitution
of the country.—(Cheers.) By the union of Scotland
with England, the independence of their Church
had been injured, and their full enjoyment of
the privileges of their Church been prevented.
The evil their forefathers contemplated had
occurred, and by the preponderance of England they
had been wronged and injured. They did not wish to
bring " a railing accusation" against those who had
caused that injury and wrong, whether they were judges,
legislators, or ministers a state. But from an un-
willingness to look into and examine what was really
the constitution of the Church of Scotland, they had
been induced to judge it by a theory of their own, not
by what was really the constitution of that Church.—
(Hear, hear.) They did not accuse the English people
of being parties to this wrong ; they were a just and
generous people ; they did not accuse them of being the
instruments of this injury. But they trusted that
through the intercourse they had with them, and the
information that had gone abroad on this subject, the
people of this country would use their best endeavours,
not to put them back where they were—but to assist
them in maintaining the cause of God and truth—a
cause that might, sooner than they were aware of, come
to their own door.—(Cheers.) That the Free Church
was the true Church of Scotland, might be proved both
from its constitution and the conduct of its ministers.
They had no desire to speak there of their own sacri-
fices ; but at the same time it would be miserable affec-
tation to say that they had not suffered, and suffered
severely.—(Hear, hear.) Five hundred ministers had
quitted connexion with the Established Church of Scot-
land ; from the relative number of the ministers of the
Established Church in England, and the number of the
population, they would be able to estimate, if such a
secession were to take place in the English Church, the
extent of the sacrifice. Of the probationers, too, of the
Church of Scotland—Men duly licensed to preach the
gospel—l7o had quitted the Establishment with the 500
ministers, and that under circumstances even more try-
ing than those attending the separation of the ministers.
They were in the morning of their days, in the ardour
of their hopes, seeing before them a prosperous career—
and all this they had renounced.—(Cheers.) They had
further evidence that the Free Church was- the true
Church of Scotland in the conduct of the students
of those who were in course of training for the ministry
of the Gospel. At their Theological College there were
more than two hundred students, and those who had the
advantage of being the most intimately acquainted with
them—their professors and others--stated that these
students were more distinguished by talent, ardour of
study, fervent piety, and real devotedness, than the stu-
dents before them for forty years back.—(Cheers.) He
could also refer, as a proof, to the missionaries sent out
to foreign countries, to India and elsewhere, as furnish-
ing another proof of the influence of the Free Church.
The missionaries had, without a single exception, given
their adherence to the Free Church of Scotland.—.
(Cheers.) This testimony was of great value.—(Cheers.)
Besides all this, the Free Church was the true Church of
Scotland, because it was the Church of the people.—
(Cheers.) There were at least a million of the people
hear.) And he
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believed that if no undue influence were exercised over
the people of Scotland that three-fourths of them would
be on the side of the Free Church. The district to which
he had the happiness to be attached was part of the
Highlands of Scotland. They all knew the character of
the Highlanders for loyalty, for courage, and bravery.
—(Cheers.) The battle plains of Europe and of
the world had testified to their devotedness, to
thier courage, and their bravery.—(Cheers.) But he
had now to tell them that never had they given such
testimony of their devotedness to any cause, of their
courage in any earthly contest, as they had given in
their firm, faithful, and determined attachment to the
cause of the Free Church of Scotland.—(Cheers.) The
people of that district were almost entirely on the side
of the Free Church, and if they only had teachers
be all on their side.
enough to send among them, acquainted with their own
language and feelings, they would
The Free Church claimed nothing which did not
of right belong to the Church. The independence they
claimed meant an exemption from the authority
of the civil magistrates in things spiritual.
They claimed nothing more. On the con-
trary, in civil matters, they were ready to give
" tribute to whom tribute was 'due, custom to whom
custom, fear to whom fear, honour to whom honour."
But in things spiritual they felt it would be a violation
of conscience to yield to the authority of any one. He
had also further to notice the sympathy they had re-
ceived and were receiving from the other Christian
Churches of Europe and America, and especially of
England. The various religious denominations of Eng-
land had expressed towards them a sympathy of the
kindest and most gratifying nature. All the
visits they had paid to this country had been
times of refreshment and consolation, and he
trusted that these were but the first fruits of more pre-
cious blessings to come. Their contributions were
needful and valuable to them. Hundreds of congre-
gations were without places of • worship, and they were
there to ask their assistance to provide them. He believed
that 3001, or not much more, was enough to erect a
place of worship for some of these congregations, and
he trusted their appeal would not be in vain. He con-
cluded by thanking the meeting for the kindness with
which it- had heard him, and hoping that the same in-
dulgence would be extended to the others who had to
succeed him.
Dr. Bueuessasi (of Glasgow) then addressed the
meeting. He said the question he had to bring forward
was no longer a novel one. The nine or ten months
that had elapsed since the breaking up of the connection
between the Church of Scotland and the State, and the
discussion the movement had since undergone, had ne-
cessarily deprived it of the freshness with which it then
struck upon the mind. But to an audience like the
present, the question must always have an inherent in-
terest. The event that happened ten months ago was
striking enough to excite an interest even in the most
sluggish breast ; but now the interest was excited by
hearing how that movement had been carried
on, how it had been sustained, and how it was
telling on the cause of true religion among the people of
Scotland, and of the world at large. I3rief as was the
, it had put that Church,
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SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TATTERSALL'S—YESTERDAY.
CHESTER CUP.
10 to 1 agst Col. Cradock's Pagan
14 to 1 agst Mr. Milbank's Sir Robert—taken
17 to 1 agst Mr. Bristow's Pharaoh
27 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Red Deer
30 to 1 agst Mr. Stebbing's Celeste—taken
30 to 1 agst Mr. Hesseltine's The Prior
30 to 1 agst Mr. Tuting's Tacita
35 to 1 agst Mr. Stanley's Vakeel—taken
1000 to 20 agst Mr. Mostyn's General Pollock—taken
So little notice was bestowed upon this race that were it
not for the disappearance of the Prior from the commanding
position he so long held in the quotations, our task would be
simply to return the market prices of a very select list of fa-
vourites. His retreat is the effect of sonic operations in Lan-
cashire, where certain parties have suddenly discovered that
he is troubled with divers infirmities, to which his late and
present owners appear to have been strangers, and who, odd
as it may read, insist that he is perfectly sound, and fit.
Without hazarding an opinion as to the degree of credibility
attachable to the rumours afloat, we may venture to interpret
them as suggestive of caution to those not in the " secret,"—
he stay be "a cripple," and he may see 12 to 1 again ; in either
case no one who watched the Chester Cup betting last year
need be surprised.

(Loud cheers.) England itself might be benefited by what
Lad taken place—(Hear)—but whether that were the cue or
not, the ministers of the free church would be equally
entitled to admiration. The two principles to which
he had referred were destined to be the lights, not
of Scotland alone, but of all Christendom.—(Cheers.) The
act which the seceding ministers had committed was imperish-
able ; it would live in history ; and it would be recorded as the
noblest event which had occurred in the present age.—
( Cheers.) In conclusion, he apologised for having so long de-
tained the meeting.
The Rev. Dr. LeircHlLD seconded the motion, which was
carried unanimously.
A collection was then made in aid of the building fund.
The Rev. Dr. CANDLISH then came forward to address the
meeting. He said the sympathy which had been manifested
for them by that meeting, was an ample recompense, if any were
needed, for all which they had suffered in the defence of their
principles. It was most cheering to him and to all the deputation,
to find their sentiments advocated and pressed home with a power
which they had not seen since they were first put forth by
their great master-spirit, Dr. Chalmers.—(Cheers.) They
had besought the Legislature to look at this question
with reference to Scottish statutes, and Scottish practices;
and through their refusal to do so, they were now engaged in
diffusing them in England itself.—( Cheers.) Throughout the
whole past history of Scotland they had maintained the prin-
ciple upon which they seceded to be vital and fundamental;
the re was no course open to them, therefore, but that which
they had pursued. Nothing had so sustained their minds in
the contest as the circumstance that they had never had
any doubt as to the path of duty.—(Loud cheers.) He then
proceeded to reply to some accusations made against him in a
pamphlet written" against, the Free Church, and concluded a
powerful address amidst Mud plaudits.
A vote of thanks having been given to the Chairman, and ac-
knowledged, the meeting dispersed.

it had cut off from itself the communion with all the Christian
churches in the world; surely it ill became her to make
charges against others of alienation and disaffection towards
her. She was now endeavouring to take the places of worship
built with the money of those who had joined the Free Church
from them. Standing, like Shylock, on the bond—on what
the letter of the law would give her—she took to herself these
places of worship, and even the buildings erected by the efforts
of their missionaries. And, as if to crown all, she was labour-
ing in many parts of Scotland to keep the adherents of the Free
Church from having a shelter over them from the inclemency
of the winter's sky. He would not allude to what bad been
done in Sutherland; but he would read an extract from a letter
from that county, which stated that a congregation had been
compelled to meet in the open air, when there was snow a
foot deep on the ground. He admitted that objectionable
expressions had occasionally been used, but, on that subject,
be would say, let those who were faultless cast the first stone.
One proof that the charge was not very extensively applicable,
was to be found in the fact that their opponents were obliged
to have recourse now to the same hackneyed anecdotes which
were rife twelve months back.—( Hear, hear, and laughter.)
He admitted that they were opposed to the Established Church ;
they must be so as long as it continued in error.—
(Cries of " Hear, hear.") That which justified their conduct
must necessarily be condemnatory of their opponents.—
(Cheers.) They firmly believed that that institution could
not prosper, and must come down. Truth was mighty and
must ultimately prevail. The true seeret, the true philosophy,
of the disruption of the Scottish Establishment was found in
her growing evangelism, in the growing fidelity with which
she was testifying against error and sin. Everywhere there
were growing indications of a great league between the infidel
and the Papist power. It was high time that they should
awake out of sleep; it was high time that the old Highland
war cry, " Shouldes to shoulder," should be raised amongst
the soldiers of the Lord's hest, that so they might be ready, in
one united phalanx, to " come to the help of the Lord against
the mighty."
Sir JAMES FORREST, an elder of the Free Church of Scot-
land, next addressed the meeting. He said it should not be
supposed that the question which they had heard mooted that
evening was a clerical question, although it was one in which
they had, from the first, felt the deepest interest. Their
reverend friends had not been contending for clerical power,
or for the interests of their own order, but for great principles,
in which all were interested. It was for this reason that the
Scotch people had supported them in their struggle. A mil-
lion of people had already joined the-protesting Church, and
new churches were at that moment rising in all parts of Scot-
land. There was a necessity for,instant and immediate assist-
ance. Eight hundred churches were being built, and others
were in contemplation ; and in such instances it was necessary
to put forth strenuous efforts.—( Hear, hear.) Their minis-
ters had made great and noble sacrifices ; many of
their flocks were wershippin , as yet, under the
canopy of Heaven.—( Hear, hear.) He was happy to say that
they had in England met with the indest sympathy. Even in
Cambridge, in spite of all the prejudices excited against them,
they had been received with the greatest kindness, and they
expected to derive considerable support from that town.—
( Cheers.) To-morrow they proposed to visit another strong-
hold of the enemy—Oxford, where
where they hoped, notwithstand-
ing the character of the University,to meet with similar
sucks.7-(Cheers.)
The Hon. and Rev. B. W. Nom. said he had bad great cause
to examine the principles and conduct of the Free Church
before giving in his adhesion to the cause; and ho
was happy to be able to state publicly that both
met with his entire approval.--(Cries of " Hear, hear.")
In accordance with his views on this subject, he had to propose
a resolution, which he trusted would be adopted by the meet-
ing :—" That this meeting, having heard the statements of the
deputation, renews its expression of gratitude, for enabling so
many ministers in Scotland to witness before the world this
good confession of the supremacy of Christ and the spirituality
of his Church, and learns with delight that such a large pro-
portion of the people of Scotland adhered to their faithful
pastors, and their testimony for truth in a day of peculiar trial,
and deeply sympathising in the privations to which ministers
and people have been subjected, and at the same time recog-
nising in the Free Church an instrumentality which promises,
in the hand of the quickening Spirit, and in friendly co-
operation with other evangelical churches, to revive the
religion of Scotland, besides largely aiding in the
Christianisation of the world, this meeting. resolves
to render the Free Church its best assistance in
providing places of worship for its adhering people."—(Cheers.)
The resolution divided itself into four particulars. First, it
recognised the justice of the principles upon which the free
Church was founded; secondly, it expressed approval of the
conduct of those who maintained these principles ; thirdly, it
called upon them for sympathy with them in their sufferings
to which their fidelity had exposed them ; and lastly it pointed
to the consequences which might be expected to result from
their principles, their conduct, and their sufferings. The Rev.
Gentleman then went on to show how in each of these
particulars the resolution was worthy of adoption by the
meeting. He said he did not hesitate to declare his conviction
that the principles of the Free Church were sound to the care.
It appeared to him that these principles were resolvable
into two ; the first being the principle of non-in-
trusion, the second• that of the spiritual liberty
of the Church. By non-intrusion he meant that no minister
was to be forced upon a reluctant Christian congregation, but
that the assent of the congregation must be obtained in order
to the formation of the pastoral relation.—(Cheers.) That
principle was one of the simplest common sense. In a relation
so important, and upon which so much of the happiness of a
village, town, or district depended, it was not reasonable that
the people should be debarred the right of protesting against
the introduction of an unspiritual and unconverted minister.
The Rev. Gentleman then referred to a number of sc. iptural
passages, for the purpose of showing that this principle was in
accordance with the practice of the primitive Church. Hooker
himself had assented to the principle that a minister was not
to be intruded against the consent of the people; and both
Catholics and Episcopalians in great numbers had
recognised the same principle. In the Saxon, in the French
Protestant, in the Helvetic, and in many other churches, the
principle in question—the principle of the Free Church—had
been distinctly recognised. Were not this the case, however,
the ministers of the Scotch Church would still be worthy of
respect, for maintaining what had been the principle of the
Scotch Establishment from the very earliest period ?—( Cheers.)
But this principle could only be sustained by the aid of a
second and larger principle—that of the spiritual liberty of the
Church of Christ. This was, in substance, that the Church
of Christ should in every land, and' in all its branches, be at
liberty, unrestrained by any stranger power, to fulfil all the
commands of Christ. The ministers of the Church could not
delegate to others, for any emolument, or on any ground., the
exercise of that authority which had been entrusted to them alone.
If a court of law were to determine the meaning of Christ's
commands, then might the Church itself trample on his com-
mands in bedience to the law.—( Hear. 1 There was a great
contrast between the claims of Papal ministers and those of the
ministers of the Scotch Church. The Church of Rome bad
always linked itself with the civil power and sought to load its
arm with the thunderbolts of the State. ihe Church of Scotland
disclaimed any such aid. There might be danger where an Ec-
clesiastical Corporation separated from the laity were erecting
a eivil and spiritual despotism ; but there could be no danger
where the very authority exercised would not be exercised
without the consent of the people.—(Cheers.) The charge
of Papal usurpation appeared to him wholly factitious, and the
cause ziaieh needed such support must be feeble indeed.—
Was tare no check in the Church of Scotland which might
have quieted the fears which had been entertained ?—( Hear,
, hear.) In reference to the manner in which these principles
had been maintained, he demanded from the meeting admira-
tion for the courage and prude rice which had been displayed.
The Rev. Gentleman then referred at length to the Veto law
and the dispute with respect to it. To the establishment of
that law he attributed great benefit to the Scotch Church.
He then proceeded to notice at some length the charge of vio-
lent language which had been brought against Dr. Chalmers,
whom he eulogised as one whose writing, wisdom, and bene-
volence were equally blended, and who would live in the minds
of posterity, as he now lived n the hearts of thousands. Ile
contended that the seceders had done the noblest act which the
present age bad witnessed. if the Scotch Establishment fell,
it would deserve to fall for deserting the principles which it
ought to have maintained. Rut he thought a day was dawn-
ing upon Scotland which it was impossible to describe.
If the seceding ministers remained true to their principles the
prospect afforded was such as ought to fill every Christian heart
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DERBY.
13 to 2 agst Mr. Crockford's Rattan—taken
7 to 1 agst Mr. John Day's The Ugly Buck--taken
16 to 1 egst Col. Peel's Orlando
:20 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's T'Auld Squire—t. and aft. off.
20 to 1 agst Mr. Quin's Loadstone
22 to l agst Lord Maidstone's Cockamaroo
25 to 1 agst Mr. A. Wood's Running Rein
35 to 1 agst Mr. Thornhill's Apprentice
40 to 1 agst Mr. Onglev's King of the Gipsies—taken
£lOO to 8 agst Mr. Scott's Sister to Grey Momus colt—t.
2000 to 25 agst Mr. Bradshaw's Sir Isaac—taken
1000 to 10 agst Lord Orford's Boots—taken freely
3000 to 25 agst Sir G. Heathcote's Akbar—taken.
The betting at the commencement was eminently calcu-
lated to increase the alarm of those who stand on The Ugly
Back; 600 to 100 was taken about his Newmarket rival;
300 to 100, four or five times, between the two and the field;
and almost at the same moment, 15 to 2 :aid to 501. agst The
Buck, half a point less, looking at the 3to 1 bets, than the
real ni...arket price. As the afternoon advanced a different
feeling was evinced, and at the close of the room 13 to 2
was laid agst Rattan, and 7 to 1 was hardly obtainable
about the other. Offers to take '22 each about T'Auld Squire
and Le ander, and 25 to 1 about Cock amaroo, and 40 to 1
about Apprentice. 1,000 to 25 was token about The King of
the Gipsies ; 2,000 to 30 and 2,000 to 25, three or four times,
aboul Sir Isaac ; 1,000 to 10 freely about Boots ; 500 to 8
about the Sister to Grey Momus colt ; 1,000 to 35 about
Mr. 'ord's lot; 1,000 to 15 about Lord George Bentinck's
lot ; 1,000 to 10, three or four times, about Boots ; and 3,000
to 25 agst Akbar. 300 even between Campanero and lonian.

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11 to 1 agst Mr. Gregory's Barecade—taken
12 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's The Bee—t.
16 to 1 against Lord Westminster's Fanny Eden
17 to 1 agst Lord Stradbroke'd Boarding School giss—t.

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remmaailarfketly passive ender all the insinuations-for a
considerable time. I told him that it was no fault of mine
that the powers of attorney that.he had sent to me were de-
fective, or the title-deeds faulty.; that I had never charged
him a farthing for the expenses r had-been put to upon his
account,
and I tried to get him off the subject of the 501., but
he kept perpetually and violently returning to if, and blam-
ing me as pointedly as he could for alj that was wrong about
the delay in the sale of the house; the consciousness of my
most zealous, fortunate, and unwearied exertions in his fa-
vour made me doubt for a long time if he could really mean
what he said ;at last I observed, Well, Fawcett, thisis a
very different return from what I expected, br I have at-
tended to your interests as I never did to my own. I have
served you as no other man could have done, and *you have
frequently insinuated that I neglected your affairs or interest'
when you were absent.' He replied I did not, Sir.'
I answered, You did, or I understood you to do so.' He
violently answered, A flat contradiction I will bear from no
man ;' lie rang the bell (he was during the whole of the
above time, or nearly so, walking hurriedly about the
room), opened the door before the sert-imt could answer
to the bell, and called out in a rage, Open the door, and
keep it open until Mr. Munro is turned_out.Of the house.'
I was so confounded by the unexpected and unnecessary
violence of the act, with the recklessness and ingratitude
evinced by it, that I did not know what to do, or what to
:ay; but 1 remained for a few minutes and then went away,
uearly distracted with the cruel and gross insult put upon
me by a person whom I had rendered such services to ; and
supposing that I might be spurned for permitting it, I re-
turned and said, that if it had not been for the connexion
that existed between us, and the unseemly nature of such a
proceeding, I would bring him to account for it, or. have re-
sented it upon the spot. lie replied that as to the connexion,
he wished never to hear of it again, and hoped that. it would
not prevent me from doing what I referred to. I then went
away. Upon the following morning I took the opinion of an
officer of acknowledged judgment, and upwards of thirty
years' standing in the army, upon the unfortunate occur-
rence. He said, that during the course of his service he had
never heard of se gross an outrage, and that, as a British
officer upon full pay, I had no alternative whatever but
what was usual, viz., an apology or a meeting. I then called
upon Mr. Grant, and took him with me to consult with a
friend of much experience in these unhappy affairs. His
opinion entirely coincided with that of my other friend ; but
he said he would take the advice of a General officer about it,
whose reply was, that no officer holding her Majesty's com-
mission could possibly exist under such an insult. In the
course of the same day, I took the opinions of three other
friends (all officers, or having been in the army) ; they all
said, that however lamentable the proceeding was, I was com-
pelled to uphold the honour of the station I held in the service
at the hazard of my life. I hoped that one word of regret might
have been expressed for the wanton and gross insult put upon
me ; but none would be given, and a meeting was proposed that
day by Lieutenant-Colonel Fawcett, to which Mr. Grant
objected. When I found, late in the evening of the 30th of
June, that no amicable arrangement was likely to be come
to, although I had left the affair entirely in the hands of my
seconds, I wrote a note, recommending my wife and children
to the care of some friends; and also a paper (which I signed
in the presence of two witnesses), declaring that I most
deeply deplored being obliged to go out with Lieutenant-
Colonel Fawcett, and that, from circumstances over which I
had no control, I was forced to do so. I most earnestly
desired that sonic arrangement might be come to the follow-
ing morning, and I made three appeals to Mr. Grant upon
the ground with that view, saying each time, Good God,
Grant, can nothing be done to stop this dreadful affair from
going on?' but it appears he was so obstinately and violently
received the day before by Lieutenant-Colonel Fawcett, that
he had no hope of coming to a friendly understanding. It
would be both imprudent and improper for me to proceed
further with the details of this most melancholy transaction ;
but I think I have said enough to convince most fair thinking
men that I am much more to be sympathised with than
blamed for what has happened. I now think that the quarrel
was premeditated, and there were circumstances of so incre-
dible a nature connected with it, that I cannot even allude to
them; but I will say that I have strong reasons to believe
that most diabolical means were used to produce a quarrel
between my lamented and gallant connexion and myself,
and to prevent a reconciliation ; I am certain that he would
not have otherwise behaved to me as he did.

" As I have been forced to enter upon the above most
painful subject, I hope in allusion to my own humble qualifi-
cations that I may be excused for stating that a great many
suggestions of mine have been introduced (through officers of
high rank and standing in the service) into the cavalry re-
gulatiofts, and that they have tended considerably to simplify
the cavalry exercise; and I will also venture to add that,
although I have not had the good fortune to have served my
Queen and country in action, my father has distinguished
himself by acts of great daring at most critical moments, and
that he has received several severe wounds in the service of
his country.
" I alsci beg leave to state that I believe that every officer,
non-commissioned officer, and trooper of the Royal Horse
Guards feels for my misfortunes ; and I also beg to refer you
to Colonel Baillie, the Lord-Lieutenant of the county in which
I was born and bred (Ross-shire), to inform you how my
countrymen feel for me, and for their opinions as to my being
capable of conceiving, much less perpetrating, the detestable
and abominable crime with which I am charged.
" I am not in a situation to be capable of judging correctly
as to the propriety of publishing the whole of this letter; but
I will leave that entirely to your consideration ; neither will
I venture to offer any apology for the liberty of addressing
you as I have done, for misfortune to the generous, particu-
larly if unmerited, is a sufficient passport at all times.
" I have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient humble
servant, " A. T. MUNRO.

" The Hon. T. S. Duncombe, M.P. for Finsbury."

DUELLING.
Mr. Turner having asked whether Ministers intended
to introduce any measure for the prevention of duelling,
Sir Robert Peel stated his reasons for thinking that
alterations of the law would not correct the evil, but
that her Majesty's Government had, during the recess,

.. ..
availed themselves of an opportunity of exercising their
influence and authority in discouraging the practice as
for as they could. He then referred to the case of the
late Colonel Fawcett—

" The officer who lost his life was a man of great
military reputation, and had distinguished himself in the
service of his country; he was unfortunately killed in a
duel; and when his widow applied for that pension to
which she would have been entitled had he lost his life

in any other way than by the hand of his adversary, her
Majesty's Government felt themselves compelled to
refuse to grant the pension. With respect to the sur-
vivor, as that officer did not come forward after a lapse
of time sufficient to allow public feeling to subside, and
meet the charge upon a fair trial, he was superseded,:
The widow of the deceased officer having been refused
the pension, and the survivor superseded, he thought her
Majesty's Government had sufficiently evinced their
willingness to exercise their legitimate power and in-
fluence against the practise of duelling."
We see in this instance the eminent prudence of Sir
Robert Peel, and how in the safest way he avails him-
self of an opportunity of exercising the influence and au-
thority of the Government for the discouragement of
duelling, by cutting off a widow's pension.
If th punishment may seem in this case not to fall
exactly on the right person, yet it is to be remarked that
it falls on one who is unable to complain, or to be trou-
blesome, which is a great point in these matters.
Who so good to begin with as a sufferer for duelling
as a widow ? She had lost her husband by the bad
practice, and let her lose her bread too, adds Sir Robert
Peel. Fill up the cup of her affliction, so short of its
measure, and add pecuniary distress to the sorrows of
the bereaved. _ _

And the Prime Minister proclaims with pride that he
had, during the recess, at his leisure, seized this
opportunity of exercising the influence and autho-
rity of Government in discouraging duelling ? Why,
more cold-blooded, more barbarous than the practice
itself, is this punishment of it in the person of the suf-
ferer the most to be pitied.
And who imposes this cruel penalty? Sir Robert
Peel, who has, we believe, fought a duel, and who, we
all know, has shown great eagerness to fight hen-
ever occasion has offered, and who has sent several
challenges.
At the head of the military administration, too, is the
Duke of Wellington, who went out with Lord Winchil-
sea, and who must have agreed in the resolution of the
taking away Mrs. Fawcett's pension.
Another member of the Government, Sir H. Har-
dinge, is always ready to have recourse to the pistol ;
and there was the Irish Attorney-General the other
day, with his soul in arms and eager for the fray, whose
explanation of the provocation which caused him to send
a challenge was received with loud cheers by the men
who cut off the widow's pension because her unfortunate
husband had obeyed the same impulses.
Lord Cardigan wounded a brother officer in a duel ;
he was tried fur it in the House of Lords, acquitted of
the notorious facts upon a quibble, complimented by the
Chief Justice acting as Lord Steward, and cheered by
the House of Legislators.
But yet it is excellent to take away the pension of a
widow whose husband has fallen in a duel. Had he re-
fused the challenge, he would have been disgraced in
the service, and deprived of his commission; having been
killed, according to the so-called laws of honour, his
widow is to be deprived of her pittance.
Suppose that such men as Lord Cardigan and the
Irish Attorney-General had been removed from their
respective appointments for the offence of: sending
challenges, would not this have been a more effective
and just mode of exercising the influence and authority
of the Government for the represssion of duelling, than
taking away the widow's pension ? But these gentle-
men would not be quiet sufferers, and the widow was a
safer victim—so unresisting, indeed, that her punish-
ment would not have been known but for the boast of
the great man who inflicted it, and who prided himself on
having exercised his influence and authority so rigo-
rously on this bruised reed.
For our own parts, we cannot but think that punish-
ment should fall rather on the parties in this offence
than on the greatest sufferers by it ; and we do not agree
with Sir Robert Peel that the powers of the law could
not be brought to bear on the practice. The law aims
too high ; the criminal penalty will not be enforced ; but
one of a more moderate nature would carry public feel-
ing with it.
In France there is a civil remedy. A widow, a son,
or daughter, may proceed for damages against the
duellist who has deprived them of their supporter ; and
this has been found to cheek duelling very materially
amongst the people who were most addicted to it.
A life in,urance is void by death in a duel ; but if
there were the remedy rA damages for killing the prop
of a family, the aim of a duellist would be very consi-
berably influenced by the consideration that, in levelling
his pistol at his antagonist's head or heart, he was also
making a sad hole in his own pocket.
If a man, before he sent a challenge, had to consider
the cost of killing his adversary, it would be a, wonder-
ful cooler to the animosities; and of all the bonds of
peace devisable for angry men the most practically
effective would be binding up the pocket of one in a
common interest with the, body of the other, for folks
who have no hearts in their breasts have one in their
pockets, and many who would mr.tke up their minds to
bloodshed would shudder at thr,.• thought of bleeding for
it in their own purses.
The law, as it is, gives damages to a man who has
suffered bodily injury ft•om another ; but, if the injury
lends in death, the family, who have lost their supporter,
have no redress but the barren one of vengeance in a
criminal process ; and what is required for the discou-
ragement of duelling is to extend the remedy of a civil
proceeding for damages to the sufferers by the death of
a husband or kinsman in a duel—Examiner.