The Sun.
London, England, 1829-02-20 00:00:00

CLERK OF THE PLEAS (IRELAND).

Upon the Motion of the CHANCELLOR of the EX-
CHEQUER, the House resolved itself into a Committee
upon the Appropriation of the Fees arising from the office
of Clerk of the Pleas in Ireland. He would shortly state
to the House the nature of his motion. In 1816 the Earl of
Buckinghamshire, who held the office of Clerk of the Pleas
in Ireland, died, and it was resolved to do away with the
office, at least with the sinecure part of it, but the Chief
Baron of Ireland had thought that the appointmert to the
office was vested in him, and he filled it up. Reference
was, however, had to the Courts of Law ; and it was,
upon inquiry, fonnd that the Chief Baron had not vested
in him the power of the appointment. The object of the
present Bill was to add to the Consolidated Fund the
money accumulated from the fees of this office. Upon this
ground it was that he moved for leave to bring in a Bill
upon the subject.
Mr. HUME wished to know the amount of money so
accumulated ?

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, it
was upwards of 79,0001. in the three and a half per
cents.

The House having resumed, the Report was brought
up and agreed to, and leave given to bring in the Bill.
Lord LOWTHER gave notice of a motion to consoli-
date certain Acts relating to the Woods and Forests.
Sir GEORGE MURRAY gave notice (fer Thursday
next) of a motion to consolidate certai❑ Acts relating- to
the Fisheries of Canada.—Adjourned at Eight o'clock.

The East India Co►npany's ship Castle
Iluntly arrived at Penang on the 23d July, and was ex-
pected to sail for China on the 9th Augcst last.

The terrifying reports of pitch-plastering
fooleries, have prevented thousands of persons from stirring
out at night. They would be an excellent application to
the mouths of scolding wives, or grumbling old women.
OLD COBBEIT.—No POPERY AND THE
CURRENCY.-This amusing old gentleman informs the
public in his " Register " of last Saturday, that the real
cause fur the settlement of the Citholic Question is to be
Emma in the demand for Gold—and that the man who
doubts it is a stupid beast. This propensity of Mr.
Cobbett's to trace effects to one cause is very appo.
sitely alluded to in a recent pamphlet on the Currency,
where the author, in allusion to the various opinions as to
the cause of our embarrassments, observes, " a popular
writer, taking another view, lays all our troubles at the
door of the Currency ; whether his children sicken, whe-
ther he loses his crop of kidney beaus, the violets in his
garden wither, if his cows fall short of their accustomed
supply of milk, let even his dogs get the distemper--it is
the Curreney,:it is a distempered circulation, and nothing
else, which produces all this animal and vegetable strife."

It is singular how very zealous the fur sex
seem to have been when the new Liturgy was attempted to
be introduced into Scotland. " The most outrageous
were observed to be women, and those chiefly serving
maids, who were then in the custom of bringing moveable
seats, and keeping them for their masters and mistresses.
Some cried, ' Wo, wo ! for this dolefu' day that they arc
bringing in Popery among us!' Others, less delicate,
called out to the Dean, in allusion to some unrecorded cir-
cumstance of his life—' 111-hanged thief ! gif at that time
when thou wentest to court, thou hadst been weill hanged
as thou vast ill- hanged, thou hadst not been here, to be a
pest to God's church this day !' And he was also saluted
with the title of ' a devil's gett (child) and one of a witch's
breeding.' After a great deal of abusive language had
been expended, an old woman, Janet Geddes by name,
hearing the Bishop call upon the Dean to proceed with the
collect of the day, exclaimed, in a voice loud enough to be
heard above the hubbub—' Deil colic the wame o' ye !
and aimed at the head of the Dean the small moveable
stool on which she sat. A shower of clasp Bibles fol-
lowed, to the amount, says one chronicler, of ' whole pock-
fulls.' Providentially, Mrs. Geddes's ticket of remem-
brance,' as a merry annalist of the period terms it, did not
take effect, the Dean having the wisdom to jouk,' that is,
to crouch, before it reached him, so that it passed over his
head."— Constable's Miscellany.

oiluNr iAs tale,
town,
DUEL PREVENTED BETWEEN A TAILOR
te Et
company in RAr R. -woi th
others, Tuesday
altaast,retshpeecitteabroleesioonf
when, an argument arising, each disputant
took an active part in the debate. They parted at a
late hour, in deadly feud, and met again the next morning
at another auberge (the sign of which is emblematic of
peace), to settle the preliminaries of their bloody combat.
Mot Laving their cases of duelling pistols at hand, they
Were obliged to descend to the extreme vulgarity of fightinf,
with two immense horse pistols, obtained from the shop of
a neighbouring gun-smith ; and waited full 141 f an how
while the said gun-smith. cast " the friendly balls to lay
them 10w.".---This. interval afforded the ci-devant linen-
draper of Stroud, an oppOrtunity of writing a valedic-
tory and testamentary letter to his wife, while his antago-
nist was breathing revenge, and thirsting for his blood.
All being prepared, and a mutual friend having written
an agreement signed by each party, the belligerents sallied
accompanied by their seconds, to the field of mar-
glory, near the Pump Room at Pittville. On ar-
i at the fatal spot, the ground was duly measured,
the pistols loaded with ball, and the by-standers were in a
state of breathless expectation,—when, just at this awful
crisis, a constable, whom some one had very. thoughtfully
apprised of the circumstarc took one of the combatants
into custody, giving his enemy also into charge, and they
were all taken to the Public-office, with their pistols, gun-
powder, ball, and the whole materiel of tsar, to he dealt
with as the law directs. The decision of the 111agistrates
shall be duly reported in our next, with the fall account
of a duel which i 3 expected to take place to morrow
morning on the same spot, between two chimney sweepers,
who unfortunately happened to quarrel atimmt the 5‘:1111.1
time.— Cheltenham Chronicle,

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