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London, England, 1825-06-15 00:00:00

A CIitIRCII SCENE.
How sweet and solemn, all able,
With reverend steps, front stone to stone.
In a small village eburch•yard
O'er intervening flowers to more
And as we read the names unknown
Of young and old to judgment gone,
And hear, in the calm air above,
Time onwards calmly eying,
Ti meditate, in Christian love,
Upon the dead and dying I
Such is the scene around me now
A little church-yard en the brow
Of a green pastoral hill;
Itsfyhran village sleeps below,
And faintly here is heard the flow
Of Woodburn's summer-rW •
A Rises where all things Dunnfel meet,
And yet the sweetest of the sweet,
The stillest of the bill I
What lulling sound and shadow tool
Hangs half the darkin'd church yard o'er,
From thy green depths sea beaniful,
Thou gorgeous sycamore
Oft bath the holy wine and bread
Been blest beneath thy nuerna'rbg tont.
Where many a bright andboary had
Bowed at that awful Sacraments
Now all beneath the turf are laid, •
Oa which they sat, and sang, and yard!
Above that consecrated teas
Ascends the tapering spire, that seems
To blithe soul op silently
To Heaven, with all its dreams.
While in the belfry, deep and
From his heaved bosom's purple gleams,
The dove's contiguous nuttsenrs dew,
A dirge-like song, half bibs, half was,
The voice so body seems! ' -•- -

HOUSE OF LORDS, Jams 13.

THB DI LIM& PIZRAOH.

Mr. HART said, that the claimant in this case was
Sir John Shelley Sidney, Bart. who had petitioned his
Majesty to terminate the abeyance of the barony of De
Lisle in his favour. His Majesty referred it to the
Attorney-General, who, after a minute investigation,
reported that the claimant was the heir of the body of
Warine De Lisle; but from the importance of other
points, the Attorney-General thought it should be re-
fined to the House of Peers. Warine De L'lsle died
is the sixth year of Richard 11. and it was recorded that
he had been summoned to take his seat in Parliament
.every Session from the 43d of Edward 111. (I 378) till
the time of his death. He submitted that a barony by-
prescription was descendable to the heirs general, but
there was a doubtlul point to decide, for which their
Lordships had no precedent to guide them. Lord Coke
laid it down that to establish a dignity by prescription,
not only the original summons, but the consequent sit-
ting of the person summoned, should be proved by re-
cord. It was impossible to prove the latter in the pre-
sent instance, as there was no journal kept of the pro-
ceedings in the Lords till the reign of Henry VIII. but
the various summonses were on record. There were
many instances recorded of fines being imposed, in those
"days, on Peers for not attending when summoned. The
Learned Counsel submitted, that the absence of such a
fine in this in-tance, where there had been sixteen sue-
ceisive sum ntonses issued, was a strong presuniption of
Warine De L'ls.e having regularly taken his seat. He
accounted for the title lying in abeyance solong, by the
fact that there was not an heir male for the four succeed-
ing gener..tinns, and that the females had intermarried
with Peers cf a higher title. The further consideration
was postponed to Thursday next.

Dnunv-Litot TIMMS —A new Musical After-
.
.piece was produced at this House last night, with in-
different success s its title is The Recluse, and its origi.
tallfor it is a translation) is Le Solitaire, with which
the Parisians have ben so mightily pleased. The
music, by CARAlratt contains many pleasing specimens ;
but there is scarcely chat acter enough about it to
satisfy the English taste. The Drama is decidedly
bad. and notwithstanding the efforts of HAMM. HOlll/,
Miss GRADDONF SCC. it was received with disapprobation.
Many innovations have crept into Bills, and passed
through bqh Houses without notice, in consequence
of the amendments and alterations aot having been
marked, so as to engage the attention of Members.-1
We therefore were glad that the CHANCIILLOIt of iheEz-
G/ISQOSit on Friday night, upon. the debate on the Re.
venue Bill, acquiesced in Sir R. WILSON'S suggestion,
that in future all new matter, or words, introduced
into Bills of Amendment, should be printed in italics;
a regulation which will also much assist the dispatch
of business. _ _

According to the account presented to Parliament,
the Gold exported from January sth to April sth, 1825,
has amounted to 536.673 0z.16 dwts. about 2,000,0001.
liable; an., 1,554,287 0z.9 dwts. Silver, about 860,0001.
value. The returns of the amount of Coin exported
must necessarily be very incomplete.
The journeymen tailors of Macclesfield have struck
for an ad varce of wager. The shoemakers in Stafford-
shire are all out also.
A Coroner's Ir.que,t has returned a verdict of Wilful
Murder against Lieut. William Pullen and others, of
the Prerei.tive Servite, for the death of a smuggler in
an affray last wed:, near Christchurch.
The Ltoile has a long article relative to a statement
drawn up from authentic documents, of the number
of bad hOoks published in France within a few years
(1817 to 1824). which are made to amount to above
three millions of volumes : among these bad books are
'40%, 81J the works of Voltaire, Rousseau, Helvetia% Diderot,
.4?..Raynal, Saint Lambert, Condorcet, Holbach, Volnez,
Lebrun, Dulause (History of Paris), Llorento,
:Ostory of the Inquisition, Cokn de Pigmy), &c.
1". In addition to the surprise expressed with regard to
gee rapiditx of travelling, it may be mentioned as a
cyrrnas iict; that a coach commenced running be-
torten Glasgow and Edinburgh, in 1650, which journey
ir fierfairmed in thfee.days. The distance is now ae-
cdsqlished in seven hours! This was founded on a
contract between the Magistrates of Glasgow and Wil-
liam;Hoom, Grass Maiker, Edinburgh, who received
ipo, mats, for effectuating the design," and it was
to run three years, provided encouragement offered,
and the Burgesses of Glasgow to be preferred to seats,
to the exclusion of others.. •
A Gentleman, who had given his servant repeated
orders to remove a table from the library without being
attended to, becoming very much incensed at the dis•
regard with which his mandate was treated, exclaimed,
"' 43411 n„. John, you are the most strecoosloptablo
Susan l erer.ksiew in my life." .
bilmo.ternisassier.—Tbil quansity et e.spper ores mad at Its.
spay Jung s, was 1,551 teas. Average ppidnee, 71. Qaantittd
=74:6223t°14.7. ntspal., as. 'Mines
NW taw •No sail 61111144r1" 1?t bwaueel illS• I, Wes

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