The Sun.
London, England, 1829-01-03 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF MR LONDON JOURNALS.

It is possible that the intelligence which we
are now going to communicate might have
reached us at an earlier hour had not an accident
happened to our messenger. But it could not
have been in time for yesterday's journal, and
bad news, it may be said, always comes Soo*
enough. We cannot be deceived in the ix-
curacy of our intelligence—would we :eight !
We should hope that we had character enough
in the country to shelter us from the effects of one
rtfistake, but we fear it iii too true that Lord
Anglesea is recalled from if ?land ! The blow
that is struck in that country will rebound hit her
It is too late in the morning to say min!!
at present : we shall reserve ourselves till
Monday, when we shall discuss the sub-
ject with the caution that it merits—with the
caution and reserve which men ought, trom
regard to their own influence, to show, who
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speak on an event, the dies, of which i-"tt
soon appear, and may by chance contradict
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strong were Lord Anglesea s convictions of the
necessity of doing something for the Ca,
tholics, that there could be no question about
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his retirement on the opening of Parliatww,
unless it were made known that a favourable
consideration of their claims would be en-
tertained. Well, a month before Pnliament
meets, there conies forth a letter from the Duke
of Wellington, acknowledging the propriety and
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from an ali-
prehension of the angry passions now afloat on
the subject. The result, therefore, is obvious,—
the retirement or recall of Lord Anglesel, .tht
Lord-Lieutenant, whose continuance in Ireland
would have been painful beyond expressi..so
under a change ofthose cot:lnsels which his Lord-
ship had understood were in 3ilent progress to-
wards consummation. From permral regard,
indeed, the people of Ireland might basp wished
him to 4ssntinue among them, under their afs
flietion and his ;—an affliction which they (salt
know he would have averted if he could ; bat
political consistency forbad the indulgence Vf.
any sympathetic feelings. The Duke of Wei-
lington's letter, therefore, may be considered as
I:i7- act of recall, though the precise eignification
or announcement of it has taken place subse-
quently.— Tillie&
The Scotch papers still dwell upon the ex-
traordinary murders at Edinburgh. It appears
that Helen M'Dougal, by way of avenging the
death of Burke, is anxious to furnish such evi-
dence as may convict Hare. It will turn out,
we suspect, that the horrid trade has neither
been originated by nor confined to Burke and
Hare. Neither of them were resusrettion men,
or known to resurrection men. How, then,
could they—lrishmen and strangers in t(lin-'
burgh--become initiated in the trade of .§elling
bodies, or become acquainted with the assistant:
of the anatomical teachers ? Though they had
heard of such a thing, they would have bect
afraid to make their first attempt with a muss
dered body for fear of detection end seizure :*
they must have been initiated into the arcana of
a trade established by others, who had first been
introduced to the anatomists as resurrectionists,
and who, from the difficulty of obtaining the
dead, had fallen on destroying the living. We
observed, the other day, that medical men could
not possibly ascertain whether death prateeded
from natural causes or from violence ; and Woi
see that the Medical Gazette, in alluding to the
observations of a contemporary (the Times), as,
suming the possibility, says—" This is writ-
ten in ignorance. So far from it being possible
to determine the question at a glance, as would be
necessary for such purpose, the investigation pro-
posed is one of extreme difficulty, and one which
would often be absolutely impossible to conduct
to any satisfactory conclusion, even if it could be
instituted at all under the circumstances sup-
posed." One of the worst features in the cha-
racter of the rich people of this country is, a dis-
position to foster the prejudice of the lower or-
ders in matters which do not affect their own
interests, and to make the people believe, by
their manner of treating the subjects of these
prejudices, that they are of more wig:pence
than might otherwise be conceived, from a sort.
of Machiavelian notion that the lower orders,
while not occupied with prejudices, may be oc-
cupied in prying into the conduct of tl.tir supe-
riors, and that a seeming deference to their
errors may flatter them into an idea that their
power is more extensive than it is. We never
see any respect shown for these opinions when
these opinions happen to clash with the views
and interests of the great. It is known by the
great that money will always command the first
professional skill ; and if a man reach profes-
sional eminence, it is nothing to them whether
he attains it by bungling experiments on the
poor, or by experiments on dead subjects. It
was well stated, by Mr. .Abernethy, we
believe, that before a man can be a good
surgeon, he must mangle either the dead
or the living. We have reason to believe
that the poor of this country, notwithstanding
the attempts to inflame their prejudices, possess
by no means that dread of dissection which
their superiors attribute to them ; and that there
is very little reason for supposing that bodies
might not be obtained here with as little offence
as in France, the Netherlands, and Germany,
the three most civilized countries of the Conti-
nent. The Medical Gazette o')serves—" The
remedy is this—to convey into the hands of the
anatomists, in the most considerate, decent,
and guarded manner, the unclaimed bodies of
all who die in such a way as to leave no linger-
ing trace of regret in the minds of survivors.—
Let there be no anticipation of this fate hanging
over the dying and the desolate ; let the question
be decided in hospitals and parochial dead
houses, where daily experience shows that the
sympathies and inquiries of friends seldom reach.
It would be an absurd affectation of sensibility
to deny that a 'very large proportion of those who
die in public Institutions are so hardened by
misfortune and disease—sometimes by crime—
that the same feelings would not be outraged
in the proposed disposal of their bodies, as
may be wounded by meddling with those who
sirs!) from the hands of mourning relatives and
watchful attendants. Let it be always remem-
bered that this a point which cannot concern the
.dead, but it Owes its existence entirely to the
passions—often, as we have shown, to the caprice
of the living." lf, as is asserted, the only legal
supply " does not equal the thousandth part of
the demand," and medical men are obliged to
" beg, buy, borrow, o: steal the ifset," the Le-
gislature are impeaiously called on to secure tl.e
community from the horrid consequences which
must inevitably follow from the difficulty in 01,..
taining a supply. The crimes of a civilized
people are methodical, and indicate, generally,
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danger attached to one branch of crime more
than another will materially affect the results.
If robbery combined with murder, for instance,
be followed with death, and simple robbery only
by transportation, murder will seldom take place.
The same spirit of calculation which disposes a
criminal to avoid unnecessary cruelty, when it
exposes him to danger, will lead him to commit
murder when it frees him from danger. It is
because murdering poor and wretcheestrangers,
about whom no one cared, was less dangerous
than violating churchyards, that it has been re-
sorted to. Mr. Cox, who had the merit of dis-
covering the horrid practices of Macdaniel and
his gang, in 1756, observes in his valuable
pamphlet, " that the convicting poor friendless
lads who never were thieves at all, was introdu-
ced (that is, as far as I could trace it) about 20
years ago ; since which, it has been carried on
in some degree gfproportion to the increase of
the rewards designed for the suppression of
robberies." In 1756, seventy innocent persons
were slaughtered by one gang, who received
from the Treasury for blood-money 1,7201. ! !
—The number of innocent men altogether
slaug:aered judicially, for money, must have
been enormous. We repeat it—that there can
be no security against murder, except from re-
moving the pecuniary temptation to commit it,
especially when it can be committed with ease.
—The conspiracies against life in this Me-
tropolis were difficult, compared with the
Edinburgh scheme. "In tracing these trans-
actions (says Mr. Cox), I find that various have
been the projectsby them made use ofto accomplish'
their designs ; and sometimes they have been
hardy enough to swear a robbery against one or
more lads who never were near the place they
swore them to be at ; as was the case of Alex-
ander and Pritchard, and of Baily and Swannick,
the one being almost twenty years ago, the other
eighteen ; but as Berry and his companions were
then detected, it made them more wary, and they
found it necessary always to get the victims to
the place under some pretext or other, and then
they could swear the robbery, whei kr any was
done or not. In order thereto, they used to
employ a person of some art, and confederate of
theirs, to introduce himself into the company of
those unfortunate and thoughtless poor crea-
tures (desperate and artful villains they seldom
meddle with), and who had been tried for
small offences at the Old Bailey, and acquitted.
At this place it was that the thief-takers con-
stantly attended, that they might have an oppor-
tunity of fixing their eyes upon, and becoming
perfectly acquainted with, their mark, the wretch
whom they had pointed out for destruction ; hence
well might it become a saying, when one of these
poor creatures was discharged from the Old Bailey,
that they should be sure of him again in a Ses-
sions or two, for it was impossible to escape the
snares laid for them : the mark fixed, this agent
or confederate of the thief-takers, or thief-makers,
which you please to call them, being well in-
structed, gets himself into the unhappy creatures'
company, treats them with victuals and drink,
and afterwards they take an airing together in the
evening, and himself commits a robbery on any
person that shall happen to -come in his way,
sometimes with and sometimes without the
knowledge of him or them who are to be sworn
against ; the robbery being done, the confederate
dra,,vs his companion to a certain place, or to
some lodging, as before agreed on, where the
rest of the thief-takers, at a proper time, come and
apprehend them together, their own confederate
and all, to whom they appear to be entire
strangers, arid they are all carried before a Justice,
where they have art cnouglrto get their own com-
panion admitted an evidence," &c. Such are
the attempts against life to which money will
lead.—Morning Chronicle.
Our city article of yesterday mentioned that
great complaints are made of the scarcity of
money, and it is said that the Bank has been
very close in its discounts." Money is likely
enough to be scarce when gold is leaving the
country in order to pay for grain imported, or if
it be sent for Russian, French, and Turkish war
purposes. As to the Bank being shy of dis-
counting, we do not wonder at it. Our wonder,
some time since, was that it should discount at
the rate of four per cent., when the common
rate of interest for common-rate paper . was five
per cent.; and, even at that rate, it was not easy
to get common-rate paper discounted. But what
a temptation the Bank has held out to bankers
to discount common-rate paper ! The cus-
tomers of the bankers, for the most part, are
shopkeepers or wholesale traders. It is pretty
well known that both the latter classes are in
continual want of discounts. The greater part
of them would give more than five per cent.
for the discounting of the bills they take in the
course of their trade. Here was the tempta-
tion to the bankers. Their customers apply to
them to discount bills at five per cent. The
bankers know that, by putting their name to
such bills, and sending them to the Bank of
England, they could get them discounted at
four per cent. Here was the temptation of one
per cent. profit, and for merely putting their
name to the back of a bit of paper. Also, the
bill-brokers would, a short time since, discount
bills, with bankers' names to them, at 21- per
cent. Here was another temptation to a banker
to discount his customers' bills at five per cent.,
when a bill-broker would discount them at 2.
We should think, from these two causes, that
paper must have been greatly multiplied. But
the time comes when payment must ensue on
the part of the shopkeepers and wholesale traders.
If they or tlis=r customers tail in honouring such
bills of course the banker must fail, provided
be has carried on such traffic beyond his means.
We do not think it good policy, on the part of
the Bank of England, to discount bills under
what may be called the fair market price of inte-
rest for the common run of bills, because it
holds out an encouragement to the extra creation
of paper, and such paper is sure to come to a
blow-ups--Morning Herald.

The friends of Catholic EmancipAtion, as if
the subject were " spell-bound," aiways contrive
themselves to mar any prospect of success which
befals it. Whatever good effects the Duke of
Wellington's letter, for instance, mu likely to
have, is more than. counterbalanced by the inju-
dicious reply of Dr. Curtis, which stamps itself
as Jesuistical a production as the most crafty of
that craft could indite. The attempt to justify
the making public a private communication is of
the shallowest kind. A letter franked by the
Duke of Wellington, forsooth, must of neces-
sity become known to every body, lest the world
should " fabricate in its stead some foolish or'
mischievous nonsense of their own !" Whether
his Grace's letter has not produced
,a manufac-
turing of some such commodity as this, we leave
the dispassionate readers of the reply to it to de-
termine. The public has yet to learn whether
the letter was a mere volunteer of his Grace, or
whether it was called for by any previous com-
munication from the Catholic Primate. If the

former, which we do not believe, then we think
his Grace had much better have abstained from
writing at all; if the latter, then the public! is
treated disingenuously by Dr. Curtis, in not
learning from him the true origin of the affair.
But, taking the matter as it stood on the Duke's
letter, how does Dr. Curtis receive the olive I
branch which is thus held out by the first hand
in the empire, if not in the world ? Why, by
rejecting it as wholly inadmissible, and vituperat-
ing " the Orange and Brunswick " Press (as the
organs of Protestantism in Ireland are styled) as
the authors of language which this mild Prelate '
stigmatises as " sanguinary and atrocious." What
a second Daniel is here come to judgment ! what
a profound, impartial, and statesmanlike view of
the question that mind must take which can thus
see so plainly the mote in its neighbour's eye, while
the beam remains immovably fixed in its own !
We do not deny but that there may have been
intemperate language, and on the part of the
Protestants ; and, if so, we deplore it, because
we are convinced that violence and intemperance
never benefited any cause. But we are con-
vinced that it has been only as a feather in the
scale compared to the inflammatory appeals
to, the worst passions of the multitude, which
have so long been, and continue to this hour to
be used by,the Catholic Leaders, the demagogues
of the Association especially. And how would
a Christian Minister---above all, one who calls
himself a Christian Prelate, and Primate to boot
---be best employed on such an occasion but in
anathematizing those over whom lie never can
nor ought to have a controul---but in condemning
the wanerings of his own flock, and calmning those
bad passions which he appears to see only in
other:, ? The Duke of Wellington prescribes peace
and good will: •the Doctor professes the same
thing, but promotes it only by applying harsh
epithets to the warmth of the Protestants, while
to the excesses of the Catholics he appears both
deaf and blind. We repeat, then, that Dr.
Curtis, by his injudicious reply to the Duke of
Wellington's letter, has marred whatever of good
to the Catholic cause that letter was calculated to
effect. At any rate, it will cure his Grace, we
should think, of seeking for Catholic corre-
respondents ; and show him that, if the question
can be settled at all, it must be through other
means than of those whose vision is so distorted
as to see every thing which concerns them with
an obliquity which scarcely leaves a single fea-
ture discernible.—lbid.

At the last meeting of the Irish Catholic As-
sociation Mr. Agitator O'Connell made some
speeches and motions of the usual description.
He gave notice of votes of thanks to several
persons connected with the Association, one of
which was in compliment to Mr. Otway Cave,
who has thus become degraded by the approving
voice of so disreputable an Association. Mr.
O'Connell also announced that the negociations
between the British Government and the Pope
had been resumed through the supposed medium
of the Duke of Buckingham ; but we haTe good
reason to believe that this statement is utterly
void of foundation in truth. With respect.to the
Duke of Wellington's Letter to Dr. Curtis, it
appears that the publishers of it made an altera-
tion of a word in the first paragraph of it,
viz.:—" I have received your letter of the
4th inst., and I assure you that you do
me justice in believing that I am sincerely
anxious to witness 'A (not the) settlement
of the Roman Catholic Question, which, by
benefitting the State, would confer a benefit on
every individual belonging to it." In this verbal
alteration something insidious might undoubtedly
have been meant ; but even giving to the crafty
Agitator the advantage of the definite article the •
over the indefinite a, still will we take our
ground upon their own artful choosing. Every
true friend to the Constitution in Church and
State would be happy " to witness the settlement
of the Question ;" but that settlement must be
effectual pi otection of the Legislature against
the pollution of Popery, and the annihilation of
all the sources of conspiracy against our Pro-
testant Constitution. The illustrious Premier
with his characteristic candour confesses that he
sees no prospect of such a settlement—an ob-
servation which, to all intents and purposes,
amounts to an announcement on the part of the
Government that it cannot be carried, and of
course that all the reports of late so artfully cir-
culated upon this subject are totally void of.
foundation.—Morning Post.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

GLTILDHALL.

SO,IIE-rinse DELICATE.—One John Brown was
charged with having stolen four pieces of ginger-
bread, the same being of the aggregate value of
three-halfpence.
John Brown, it appeared, was caught in the com-
mission of this very " petty larceny ;" but the owner
of the gingerbread, supposing John Brown might
have been instigated thereto by hunger, would have
let him go; and he was about to do so, but per-
ceiving John Brown's pockets stick out very awk-
wardly, he had them searched, and found therein a
bottle of brandy and the better half of a quartern
loaf. " Why you unconscionable vagabond !" said
the owner of the gingerbread to John Brown, " how
could you think of stealing gingerbread, when you
had all this bread and brandy in your pockets ?"
To which John Brown replied--" Truly, I admit the
bread and the brandy, but my stomach is weak, and
wanted a bit of something delicate."
Now the gingerbread-man, however he might feel
flattered by the compliment thus paid to his ginger-
bread, had no notion of the goodness of John Brown's
plea; and, conceiving that John Brown's honesty
was more weak than his stomach, he gave John
Brown in charge to the constable, who now brought
him before the Magistrate.
Before the Magistrate John Brown said nothing;
and the Magistrate being of opinion that John
Brown was more troubled with the cacoethes
filchendi than with dyspepsia, committed him for
further examination on Saturday, under an idea that
he had not come honestly by. the bread and the
brandy, and that a more lawful owner for those
things might be found in the mean time.
BOW-STREET.

Yesterday Mr. Ferstandeg, who, it will be re-
membered, was committed .from this office about the
middle of last November, by Sir R. BIRNIE and Mr.
MINSIIULL, upon a charge of having feloniously de-
tained a certain manuscript, the property of Mr.
Wilks, bookseller, Chancery-lane, of which charge
he was afterwards acquitted by a Westminster Jury,
came to this office to demand a public conference
with Sir Richard Birnie upon the subject of his
committal.
Sir R.BIRSIE having ascertained Mr.Ferstandeg's
object, sent to him to say that he would see him in
the private•room. In a few minutes after the re-
porter for this journal was sent for, when the follow-
ing conversation occurred :
Sir R. BIRNIE— Here is a gentleman who was
present when the case Was before us. The Magis-
trate then asked the reporter if he recollected Mr.
Ferstandeg having said that he would not give up
the manuscript to Mr. Wilks.
Reporter—l certainly do recollect that Mr. Fer-
standeg said so; but I suppose he meant that he
would not restore the manuscript unless his demand
were satisfied. Such was
.my impression at the
time.

Mr. Ferstandeg—Of course that was my mean-
ing: all I wanted was to be paid for my trouble.
Any man of common sense would have seen my
object.

Sir R. BIRNIE—I considered that it was your
determination to detain the manuscript, which was
clearly not your property, but the property of Mr.
Wilks; and it was upon that ground that I joined in
your committal.
Mr.,Ferstandeg—That committal, Sir R. Birnie,
was contrary to law and justice, and as a man in-
jured in my health and reputation, I have come to
demand of yo❑ a public apology.
Sir R. BIRNIE—WhiCh I shall most certainly not
afford you.
Mr. Ferstandeg—Then I have been most scanda-
lously treated, and you may depend upon it that I
shall not rest tamely under the injury I have sus-
tained. The acquittal of the jury absolved me from
the guilt of felony ; but what compensation am I to
have for the stigma which a committal to gaol Upon
such a charge must fix upon my character ?
Sir R. BIRNIE—No man was better pleased than
myself to hear of your acquittal. God knows,
wish there were more acquittals than there are.
Mr. Ferstandeg--I have no doubt of your charit-
able wishes, Sir Richard Birnie ; but I own I tun
rather incredulous, when you say you were glad of
my acquittal.
Sir R. BIRNIE—Upon my word I was though.
You mistake me, my good Sir. I was bound to act
as I did ; and, what is more, I should have been
liable to a mandamus from the Court of King's
Bench if I had refused to entertain the charge. Why,
did not Mr. Wilks and his man both swear that vou
forcibly took possession of the manuscript ? And
did I not myself hear.you say that you would not
give it up ?
Mr. Ferstandeg—No magistrate in England, ex-
cept yourself, would have acted as you have done.
Sir R. BIRNIE—You are quite mistaken ; and I
would wager my existence that if the depositions
taken before Mr. Minshull and myself were placed
before any five magistrates in England, three out of
the five would have signed your committal without
the slightest hesitation.
Mr. Ferstandeg--Perhaps they would, Sir Ri-
chard. Magistrates in general, although dispensers
of the law, are not overstocked with wisdom. Thank
God, however, that an honest British jury can see
their way without being influenced by passion or
prejudice.
Sir R. BIRNIE--You have no great opinion of
magistrates, it appears.
Mr. Ferstandeg—Why, no : I have but little
right ; they are at best but a necessary evil.
Sir R. BlRNlE—lndeed ! you are very compli-
mentary.
Mr. Ferstandeg.-1 mean to say that magistrates
are necessary only because of the existence of crime.
They are appointed for the good of the community
to detect and punish the guilty.
Sir R. Bit:WE—Come, now that is something
better.

feted to place it in your own hands until two honour-
able men should have examined into my claim ?
Sir R. BIRNIE—You had no right whatever to
detain the manuscript, which, I understand, you
have not as yet given up.
Mr. Ferstandeg—No; nor will I until I am paid.
Sir R.- BIRNIE-I,lpon my word you are acting
illegally. If a cabinet-maker gives his journeyman a
piece of mahogany to manufacture into a table, that
journeyman is hound to return the work to his em-
ployer, who, if he refuses to pay for the work and
labour done to it, is liable to a civil action for the
amount. The workman is not to take the law into
his ow•n hands, by retaining his employer's property,
and demanding what he pleases. •
Mr. Ferstandeg--I dare say that law is very good
between master and journeyman; but in literary
matters it is suite another thing. In short, Sir
Richard Birnie, I have been wronged by you, and I
wish to come to the point; will you apologise ?
Sir R. BIItNIE--Most certainly not. I never
injured you—at least not intentionally. Why should
I ?—Mr. Ferstandeg—What 1 Was it no injury to
consign me to a dungeon ? Was it no injury to
brand me with the name of miscreant—a foreign
miscreant

Sir R. BIRNIE—I remember very well what I
said. It was just as you declared your determina-
tion not to deliver up the manuscript that I turned
to Mr. Mitishull, ail, said " I wonder that these
miscreants should find encouragement in this country."
Mr. Ferstandeg—l am no miscreant, Sir Richard,
and I defy your whole country, and all your col-
leges to boot, to prove me one. My friends tell
me that the term " miscreant" is even worse than
your consigning me to prison. I have been directed
by the committee of the King's College to demand
a public apology from you, Sir Richard Birnie, for
the injuries I have received at your hands ; and the
Royal Society of Literature have also directed me
to apply to you.
Sir R. BIRIcIE—If any of the gentlemen belong-
ing to either of the institutions you have named
would do me the favour of waiting on me uny morn-
ing, I am persuaded I should satisfy them that I not
only acted as became my duty as a Magistrate, a
distinct offence having been positively sworn to, but
if I had acted otherwise 1 should be unworthy of
the station which I fill.

Mr. Ferstandeg—One of the committee of the
King's College, who directed me to call upon you, is
his Grace the Archbishop of York; another is the
Bishop of Salisbury.
Sir R. BirtmE—l certainly cannot expect that
those distinguished individuals should call upon me
to hear my explanation; but I am reudy to wait
upon them at any time they may appoint.
Mr. Ferstandeg—l am not unreasonable Sir
Richard Birnie : all I want is a line from you in the
newspapers, stating that you believe me to be an in-
jured man. I will draw up such a paragraph as no
reasonable man could object to.
Sir R. BIR:qIE-I shall certainly say thus much,
that had I known as much of Mr. Wilks at the time
you were under examination as I have since learned,
I would have hesitated before I committed any man
.upon such testimony. But, good God, how are
magistrates to know the character of complainants ?
Are they to find it out by intuition ?
Mr. Ferstandeg (clapping his hands in seeming
exultation)—That is all I want you to say, Sir
Richard Birnie : set my character fair before the
public by contrasting it with that of my prosecutor
Wilks, and I require no more. , God forbid! I
have some. compassion in my nature—l do not look
for more.

Sir B. BIRNIE—I have no objection to do any
thing in reason consistent with my character; but I
shall not send any thing to the newspapers. I never
wrote an article in a newspaper in my life, but an
explanatory letter to Alderman Wood, when he was
sheriff.

Mr. Ferstandeg (going)-7-Then you refuse to
afford me the only reparation in your power?
Sir R. BIRNIE (to the Reporter)-1 am obliged
to you, Sir, for your company. Mr. Ferstandeg, he
so good as to remain ; I wish to speak with you
privately.
Our reporter immediately withdrew, leaving Sir
Richard Birnie and Mr. Ferstandeg closeted toge-
ther. The result of the interview did not transpire.

PETTY SESSIONS.

UNITED PARISHES OF ST. ANDREW, HOLBORN, AND

ST. GEORGE THE MARTYR, MIDDLESEX, V. THE

OCCUPIERS OF CHAMBERS IN LINCOLN'S INN.
A petty sessions was held yesterday morning at
the workhouse, Little Gray's Inn-lane, for the pur-
pose of the magistrates giving their decision respect-
ing issuing distress warrants against several profes-
sional gentlemen, occupiers of chambers in Lincoln's
Inn, for seven years' arrears of poor rates.
Shortly after eleven o'clock, Mr. Purvis, Captain
Tomlinson, and Mr. Beckett, entered the commit-
tee-room, when Mr. Purvis stated, that himself and
brother magistrates had given the cases the
most attentive consideration, and they were unani-
mously of opinion that the parish was entitled 'to
the full amount of rates demanded, and if not imme-
diately paid they should feel it their duty to issue a
warrant of distress.

Mr. BRODERICK end Mr. SMITH attended as
Counsel for the occupiers of chambers, who it is ex-
pected will appeal to the Quarter Sessions against
this decision of the Magistrates.
The Overseers then applied for summonses against
fourteen other gentlemen, occupiers of Chambers
in Lincoln's-Inn, amongst whom were the Attor-
ney-General; Mr. Maule, Solicitor to the Trea-
sury ; Mr. Sugden, Mr. Horne, &c., which were
granted, and the cases ordered to be heard and de-
termined next week.

The parish demand seven years' arrears of poor-
rates, amounting to nearly 12,0001., which the
other side are determined not to pay but upon corn-
pulsion. It will be recollected the question has
been three times tried in the Court of King's Bench,
and on each occasion a verdict has been obtained
in favour of the parish. The case is one of im-
mense importance to the parishioners, and excites
very great interest.

The Egyptians sometimes placed a skeleton
within sight of their guests at a feast, that, in the midst of
feasting and inerriment, the frail tenure of life and its en..
joyments should not be forgotten.
A German chymist has discovered, that by
mixing two parts of nitrate of potash, two parts of neutral
carbonate of potash, one part of sulphur, and six of sea
salt, all finely pulverised, a fulminating powder of the
greatest strength is obtained ; and what is very remarkable,
the force of the explosion is constantly directed below.
COAL.—Within these few weeks the Monk-
land coal has been brought in considerable quantities to
Edinburgh. It is an interesting fact, illustrative of the
advantage derived from improved modes of conveyances
that this coal, after coming 10 mike by the Kirkintilloch
Railway, and 44 miles by the Forth and Clyde and the
Union Canals, is delivered in Edinburgh at Ile. or 12s.
per ton, while the coal carted five or six piles only, from
the Mid.Lothian pits, cost, a few years ago, one-half more,
or"from 17s. to 18s. per ton.—Scotsman.

The population of Bavaria consists of about
3,960,000 individuals, spread over 229 towns, 399 burghs,
2,920 villages, and 28,450 hamlets. Divided according
to their religious faith, this population comprehends
2,720,000 Catholics, 1,103,000 Christians of the Augs -
burgh confession, 80,000 reformed Christians, 56,000
Israelites, and 1,000 persons of various other sects. Public
instruction, costs the Government annually 735,000
florins, which is about a sixth of the whole expence of the
administration of the interior. The number of establish-
ments devoted to education is about 5,536—vix. three
universities, two schools of law, seven normal schools,
one hundred and eighteen lyceum!, gymnasiums, colleges,
particular schools, &c. ; and five thousand four hundred
primary schools. The number of professors is 7,114,
without reckoning nearly 300 inspectors, whose duty is to
superintend and improve the various institutions. The
Jews have an especial school for their children, and a
learned academy at Furth. The total number of persons
thus receiving education in the kingdom is 500,000 ;
that is to say, about an eighth of the population. There
are also many.sunday schools.