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zerland (the Oberland, for instance), are not
more advanced than the Catholics of the Ferest
Cantons. The Tyrolese are as industrious as
any of the Swiss. The peasantry of Austria
Proper are said by Lord Normanby to be better
off than any peasantry he ever saw; - Mr. Hum-'
phreys, in the Preface to the Second Edition of
his invaluable work on Real Property, says he
has left out the comparison between Primogeni-
ture and Equal Partibility, because, " since the
former publication, he has perused the Civil
Code of the Netherlands, and has traversed the
country in almost every direction. The one
establishes equal partibility, the other exhibits a
country cultivatedrlike a garden, with a peasantry
thoroughly at its -ease." It• is • not; therefore,'
true that Catholics in Europe are every -where
less industrious than Protestants. Having
established that Catholics are inferior to Pro-
testants, he next endeavours to prove that men
are not converted from one religion to another
by arguments. " Truth, my Lord, of itself—
unassisted by adscititious circumstances—is not
sufficient to obtain a victory , over igno-
rance and prejudice ; if it were, the principles
of the Reformation had been more largely dif-
fused than they are." These adscititious circum-
stances he finds in the keeping the Catholics in
a constant state of uneasiness, so as to force the
advantages of Protestantism on their attention
on the one hand, and to force their Priests to
compete in liberality with the Protestants.

" But then I may be asked, can things continue as.they
are? My answer is decidedly in the negative; things
cannot remain as they are ; weighty principles are in ope-
ration, which if not retarded by unwise legidation, Ireland
becomes almost immediately emancipated.. Ske becomes,
my Lord, a bona fide Protestant country. She is ad-
vancing towards this happy consummation with giant
strides, while every step she makes forward tends to extin-
guish life in that spiritual monster which has sat for ages,
incubus-like, upon the mental and physical energies of the
people. I. for one, rejoice in the agitation of the Catholic
Question—it gives animpulse to thought, and purifies that
stagnation of intellect into which Popery had thrown its
worshippers ; it provokes discussion, leads •to investiga-
tion, and forces the priest from between the bigot and his
flock. Already, my Lord, it hu done much ;it has made
Popery in Ireland, bad as it is, a very different thing from
what it is in Spain sad Italy—it has forced an appearance
of libetality upon the Catholic Diguitaries--it has rendered
it necessary that they should disavow tenets which were
taught thirty years since to be true as holy writ. My
Lord, Dr. Doyle has endeavoured to smoothen over the
doctrine of exclusive salvation. This looks well," ke.
This is amusing--injustice need never want
an apology on these principles.—Morning Chro-
nicle.

Letters received in town yesterday, mention the
arrival at Cork, of the Arcturus, of Whitby, the
Eliza, of Belfast, and the Retrieve, of Liver-
pool, three vessels of between three and four
hundred tons burthen each, for the purpose of
conveying emigrants to Brazil. These letters
also state, that one ship of 550, and another of
300 tons, are speedily expected for the same pur-
pose. Whatever opinions may be entertained
of the propriety of Government's interfering to
facilitate emigration, or of laws to encourage it,
there can be but one opinion respecting it,
when originating in the unconstrained wishes of
the community itself. Nor do we' think that
there is muck cause to regret, that the stream
should be occasionally diverted, either by
caprice or convenience, to different parts. The
native of Great Britain, who goes to Brazil,
is likely to become the progenitor of a race,
which will long keep in kindly remembrance,
the birth-place of their fathers. He is thus
creating a tie of sympathy between two
distant naticals._ far _mare. _tiowarcui _than , any
which interest or policy can supply: As he
carries with him to South America more active
habits, faculties more exercised, and an under-
standing better cultivated than most of the inha-
bitants there can be supposed to possess,- we may
naturally look, from such emigrants,' to the in-
troduction, in the ratio of their numbers, of more
liberal and enlightened ideas, in the spot where
they settle. All that is requisite is, that their
number shall not be so small as that they shall
melt unnoticed into the mass with which they
are destined to mingle. This is not, however,
an event very likely to occur in the thinly
peopled regions of South America. Some re-
ports say, those emigrants are engaged as sol-
diers by the Emperor Don Pedro. This is,
probably, only a report ; but whether true or
false, their emigration will not be less important
to those they leave, nor, probably, less influential
to those to whom they are going.—Netv Ti P 1 es.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, WzormixsTEß, Jutt 11.

THI KING v. GRIFFITH.

In our report of the proceedings that took place
in the Court of King's Bench on the last day of
term, Wednesday, the 4th of July, we omitted to
state that a rule for a criminal informatiott
against
the defendant, who is the proprietor of the Chelten-
ham Chronicle, which was obtained in Easter Term
at the instance of Mr. Prince, an attorney of Chel-
tenham, for a letter addressed by the defendant to
the prosecutor, tending to provoke a breach of the
peace, was discharged with costs, upon affidstvits, in
which the letter was not denied, but -circumstances
of provocation were stated.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, JULY 11.
PALIALR. V. DUGARD.
Mr. Sergeant TADDY stated, that in this case the
plaintiff sought to recover compensation for the loss
of the services of one of his sons, who was about
eleven years of age, and who had been injured in
consequence of the neglect of the defendant, in the
following distressing manner. In the month of
December last he was sent out with some goods in
a truck belonging to his father, who was a sugar re-
finer, carrying on business somewhere in •the neigh-
bourhood of the Islington-road. On the same flaY
the defendant, who is a jeweller, having a house at
Pentonville, and carrying on business in Clerken-
well, had been driving in a single-horse chaise; which
he had left in the charge of an old woman. It ap-
peared, however, that she bad either neglected or
was unable to manage the horse, as he shortly after-
wards broke away from her, and, galloping off at
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broke his aon,,came
leg, and tore the membrane from the bone in such a
shocking manner, that it can never be restored, leav-
ing the poor lad a cripple for life, and in every re-
spect a most pitiable object. It was but fair, how-
ever, to Mr. Dugard to say, that he had paid the
expenses attending the cure of the leg, and had sent
a surgeon expressly to see that the lad was treated
in a proper manner; hut the father had sustained a
considerable loss in consequence of the inability of
his son to 'resume his former labours, and as Mr.
Dugard had refused to allow any thing for this con-
sideration, he was compelled to bring the case be-
fore a jury, who, he trusted, would make him some
reparation in damages for the loss he had sustained,
having keen obliged to employ another lad in his
son's place. •
Arthur Palmer, the lad whose leg was broken,
was then called.-.._1 am the son of Richard Palmer,
who is a sngar-refiner, living near Bagnigge-wells.
I was employed in his business, and was -in the
habit of going out with goods in the truck.' My
brother Thomas also goes out with the truck. On
the 4th January last, I went out to the New-road
with the truck. I was to deliver some goods at Mr.
Pasmere's. I never saw a horse in a gig until it
ran 'over me and broke my leg. I was carried' into
a shop, and in about fire minutes was carried borne.