Star.
London, England, 1824-05-17 00:00:00

WALKING BACKWARDS.

Lloyd, the pedestrian, completed his match on Saturday, of
walking forty miles backwards each day for ten successive days.

CORN-EXCHANGE, MARK-LANE, MAY 17.

The quantities of Corn that came in last week were tolerably
fair for this season of the year. This morning there are only sma
fresh supplies of Wheat, Barley, Beans, and Peas, Irons Essex,
Kent, and Suffolk, with very little Corn from more distant ports.
Our Millers still content themselves with purchasing those samples
of Wheat which are in the best condition, and such have fully
maintained the terms of this day sennight ; but all other qualities
find sale with extreme difficulty, unless offers d at lhwer prices.—
From the state of the averages, the bonded Barley is expected to
he liberated next week: this keeps the Barley trade very dull, and
although offered on lowered terms, our buyers will rut make pur-
chases. Beans fully maintain the prices last quoted, on account of
the late wet weather occasioning more demand for them. There is
nothing doing in Peas of either kind. Good Oats find buyers at
much the same rates as last quoted, but the trade cannot be reported
brisk. flout is still very dull.

PRICP3 OW BOA RD SHIT.
Wheat, Red (new), 60s. 645. Rye, new, 38s. 445.
- old, 61s. 725. - oid, 00*. 00s.
White new, 58s. to 725.
_HBreica.knso,
old,ld, S m 4
4a3110. ;
new,4 425. 435.
- old, 655. 80s. ____
Barley, New, 325. 40s.
lick, hew,
44356559. 9.
Peas, Grey, New, N").3.ew, 3°°63s. 3.55. Oats, Feed, new, 20s. 245.
- Old, 355. 38s. - old, 265. 291.
Maple, new, 375. 401. Poland, new, 21s. 275.
old, 00s. Oth. I - old, •_;4s. 995.
White, new, 38s. 40s. Potatoe, new, 245. 51s.
- old, 40s. 42*. -- old, 21)5.:,25.
Boilers, new, 383. 425. 1 Scotch, 30s. 325.
old, 00s. 00s. 57u77 per Sack, 50s. ties.
ARRIVALS LAST W LLIi..
6,489 1 Beans - 1,235
2,671 1 Peas -19 l
5,562 1 Irish Oats - 2,290
- - 14,417 I Faigli*h Flour, sacks 5,671
SMITHFIELD MARKET, MAY 17.
This morning's market has been one of the shortest we have wit-
nessed for some time past, both in Oien and Sheep ; in consequence
of which, and the coolness of the weather, the prices 01411 dtsctip-
lions of Cattle have considerably advanced.
Beef, per stone of sibs. 3s. bd. to 4s. Bd. Mutton, 39.10 d. tO
4s. led. Veal, 51. od. to 6s. 4d. Lamb, ss. Bd. to Os. 9sli"

Wheat,
.English. qrs.
Barley
'Malt
Oats

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The Hermit Abroad. Vols. 111. and IV. 12mo.
We noticed the two former volumes of this work, as
not unworthy of the attention of such as are fond of
works of fiction. The present volumes are no way in-,
ferior to their predecessors. As a specimen of the
aathor's manner, we shall lay before our readers a por-
tion of one of his well-told little tales:
THE BROKEN DOWN DRAGOON HORSE.
" Thrice did the poor animal toss' his head proudly,
As if indignant to be placed in his degraded situation ;
and thrice did the driver of the cabriolet pat him kindly
on the neck, crying, " Courage, Blondel, thou shalt
have a double feed this day, for thou halt worked like a
brave one." The horse reared his crest courageously,
but the noise of a number of bells suspended round his
neck seemed to alarm and to humiliate him. He hung
his ears; his flanks beat to and fro, the driver offered
him some wet hay, but the unfortunate servant and
friend to man was too weak and jaded to relish food:
a hollow cough announced an affection of the lungs,
and blood streamed from the dumb sufferer's mouth.
" The scene interested me, or rather, I ought to say,
my sympathies found themselves entangled in the living
drama. " Diable," cried the driver, as he looked feel-
ingly at the horse—" putt."—He offered a second lock
of wet hay, the old horse drooped and faltered ; a cold
shivering seized his limbs, the bells rang again,tnd the
animal again shook his head. 1 saw the moment had
arrived, which was likely to terminate the existence of
the slave to man; and I approached and advised the
unharnessing of the poor beast, which advice was most
willingly accepted by the driver. "A h mon --„"
I add not the monosyllable so commonly and irreve-
rently pronounced ; this word is not considered as
swearing, or as a rash and profane invocation ; those
who use it know not, perhaps, what they do; in English,
it would be a greater fault; let us pass, therefore, from,
the exclamation, or ejaculation, to its purport ; it was
to deplore the situation of a suffering animal of the
greatest utility, and nas followed by the uplifting of
the shafts of the cabriolet, accompanied by a panto-
mimic communication to me, which informed me I
might relieve the patient, (I may say) for patient and
resigned was the agonized quadruped, by aiding him
from the suffocating collar and galling traces : a look
was enough for me, I pocketed my gloves, deposited
my cone in the cabriolet, and worked like a hired la-
bourer to get the horse clear of his incumbrances;
crowd now gathered around us, the horse staggered
horn his load—shivered—rang those bells,which seemed
like his departing knell—and fell 'prostrate on the
pavement.
" The driver looked in despair, and smote his forehead.
" Raise him up,"ctied he, in a voice stifled with grief,
and every one around lent a hand ; the animal stood
erect, and looked again proudly for some seconds, again
he tossed Iris head, and fell—to rise no more. The
driver sighed and swore, he cast his hat upon the
ground and swore a second time;—wept and swore
again. " Brute that thou art," cried one spectator,
" thus to overwork this poor horse:' Thou hart
starved him," exclaimed another ; the man was deaf to
these accusations, and I saw that his heart acquitted
him ; Ce West Tien de tout cola,"—" it is nothing of
all that, which occasions his death," answered he, " he
nas not made for his situation:" here he took breath—
" he had not the force to undergo the fatigue of a street
cabriolet :" his voice failed him, " f—! a word we
must not name—s I fed him, and took care of him like
a child, but his appetite and strength failed him daily,"
and—(ax oath )—" here he lies at last."
" The pause was long and impressive. M I wish that
he had been shot before I had bought him," resumed
the speaker.—" Rather wish," replied I, " that some
humane master had turned him out in his paddock for
life, in consideration of his former services." "Lis bleat
oui," said the owner, with a sneer ; " yes, indeed, where
should we find such generous souls, here live there
the men, who leave not the brute creation to contempt
and ruin when their service is performed, and when
they are no longer fit for work ? Do we not see man
treat his fellosv-man in the same way ?" He might
have uttered a volume of reflections, but could have
added nothing to what I understood. Here a heavy
tart passed by, but the old driver interfered, and exerted
himself so as that the wheel should not touch the body
of the dead horse; many approached it with interest,
all viewed it with decency, (I say decency, because death
in any form is a solemn hint to the children of morta-
lity). " Poor thing !" exclaimed a pretty blanchisseuse,
as she passed it by, and gently touched its arched and
once comely neck. " Poor thing !" echoed the driver,
in an octave below the female note of pity ; at length a
veteran in rags approached the spot, whose weather-
beaten front, and prematurely grey mustaches exhibited
his brief and unsuccessful biography ; he rushed boldly
into the circle, and tried to raise the horse. " .vone
stun " vociferated he (another unconscious oath),
4* will nobody lend a hand ? " "It is too late," uttered
a dozen voices together. The broken soldier lifted up
the neck of the beast again, and again; it fell lifeless,
and with it sunk the heart of ragged humanity.—
" Tonnerre —" it was no use.
"The soldier wiped the perspiration from his copper'
brow—be then examined the carcase attentively ; a
mark on the left haunch soon brought to the broken
soldier's remembrance his former comrade, and his for-
mer occupation. The dead dragoon-horse and the
veteran (wr inklcd in the early autumn of his days) had
shared the same fate, and had braved the same perils
together. Laforce (such was the dragoon's name) had
actually made three campaigns on the poor brute's back,
he had been wounded in one of them, and many a time
and oft had they both partaken of the same coarse black
breed, and slept side by side at the sign of the seven
ears (the Septem Pkiades) together. The soldier could
no longer contain his feelings ; from oaths and ejaculaa
tions, he passed to the historical detail of the joint feats
of himself and Moustache (so he called the victim war-
horse); scarcely could the great Bucephalus, or the
grand elephant of Pyrrhus, boast more renown in the
annals of battles. At one moment, Laforce looked
wistfully at the animal, at another he caressed the re-
mains of his faithful companion, now no more ; at
length, tears coming rapidly and involuntarily, he swore
a round oath, and departed abruptly, crying as in scorn,
" Ah 1 bah I rt.& ce qe eat que de nous 1" meaning man
and beast; each soon humbled to the dust, the race of
each soon run, the tale of either soon told and soon
forgotten."
The Duchess of PARMA (MARIA Louisa) is on a
visit to gems, with a large nits.

GAME LAWS.

On the Motion of Mr. S. WORTLEY in the House of
Commons on Friday, for the recommittal of the Game
Laws Bill, Sir Joan BRYDGES spoke as follows:

" Entirely opposed as I am to the principles of the measure now
under the consideration of this House, and believing, as I do, that
if it is adopted, it will dot answer the end proposed, however feeble
must be my opposition, still it is my duty to shew it, satisfied as I am
in my conscience, that should the Bill be passed into a law, it will
be a destructive precedent for an interference in and an infringe-
ment of the privileges and the rights of property. Though Ho-
nourable Members who advocate this measure, may attempt to
decry the privileges of Lords of Dlanors, by calling them permis-
sive rights only,l consider this to be a distinction without a differ-
ence: every privilege is a right, and every attempt tjg invade it
ought to be resisted ; and though permissive only this right may be,
it still has Its value ; for is it not one amongst the many inducements
daily held gut to persons to become purchasers of estates? Nothing
is more common than to state in the advertisements, as an addi-
tional inducement to persons to become purchasers, the rights and
privileges of an appendant manor. It has been argued that a privi-
lege, the exercise of which it is in the power of another to prevent,
is of little consideration—yet mark the inconsistency of those
who argue thus, trifling as it is, and valtieless as they would
have it supposed to he, still they are anxious that it should no
longer be confined to ancient Lordships, but would open it to the
wide command of the purse: if valueless, why do,this? Sir, I
shrewdly suspect this part of the Bill is framed only with a view to
catch popularity. I will not detain the House long, but I must say
a few words upset this occasion, as I may not have another oppor-
tunity. lam come to this House to do my duty, and not to sacri-
fice it at the shrine of popularity whatever odium, therefore, my
opposition to this measure may create to myself, I am content to
incur it, hod to take the consequences of endeavouring to defeat this
obnozious measure. Among the many objections I have to the
principle of this 1301, I disapprove of it as an innovation en the
privileges of the higher orders. Lately, in a debate in this
House on a Bill to prevent cruelty to animals, some Ilonour.ible
Members wished to extend its provisions to the practices of bear-
baiting, cock-fighting, Ste. amusements of the lower orders—it
was connuendattly opposed on the ground of its being an interier-
ence with their recreations. Upon the same principle, Sir, I claim the
protection cf this House for the higher orders, and out to take away
or abridge those inducements that invite the Country Gentleman to'
domesticate among his own people. Sir, the Country Gentleinas
is no longer that uneducated illiterate 'Squire that we used to read
of of old ; there are now no 'Spire Westerns—there is now no
longer that obnoxious character so whimsically, though satirically
described in Hall's Crazy Tole.:
A country dog, I think,
Is very like a country 'Squire,
They both are only fit to sleep and stink by their own fire !
• And when awake, are only good
'l'o yelp and halloo in a wood;
Few worsts compose their whole vocabulary !
A fox, a hare, and a flue seeming day,
And whether they are serious or merry, this is all they have to say !
In short, they never are so entertaining,
As when they are fast asleep, or feigning !'

No, Sir; the present race of Country Gentlemen is an enlightened,
educated, and most useful class, the flower of Ettgland, well quali-
fied for the &nate, the Magistracy, or any othCr duties that their '
inclinations may lead them to adopt. Is it fair then to deprive
tbent of their ptivikges, and to abridge those recreations whisli
invite Country Gentlemen to domesticate among their own people,
when time and opportunity concur to enable them to do ao.—
" Dit/cs est desipere in loco : ' and this is a privilege every class
should be permitted to enjoy. Farther, I would ask those 'knout--
abh. Members who are favourable to this Bill, to weigh well what
they are about &afore they consent to interfere with privilege. I
know their argument is, that a privilege which is pernicious, and
which tends to demoralisation, ought to be abolished ; and they say
the Game Laws come under this description—this I deny, but foe
the sake of argument I will admit it is a privilege, and as
web, I would not interfere with it, unless urgent necessity de-
manded it. When innovation once begins, who shall say where it
will stop? " Moribus ant iquis stet Roma." We all know the privi-
lege of freedom from pereonal arrest that is enjoyed by the Mem-
hers of this House; suppose Petition on Petition was laid on this
table, praying the abolition of this custom, fraught with injustice,
and full of demoralization, because, under this advantage, debts were
perhaps created which otherwise never would have been incurred,
bad not the person been known to be secure -Irons arrest. But,
Sir, I say, were Petition* on this bead so presented, would they be
heeded, or would they not rather be rejected by acclamation? or
would this llouse be guilty of a suicidal act? I cannot believe it.
We li.ve frequently known persons run then heads. against a wall,
but it is rare fur them to build a wall for the purpose. Now, Sir,
as to the measure not answering the end proposed, I verily beliePe
it cannot du so; on the contrary, whateter evils spring out of the
present Game Laws, if there are any of consequence, I believe they
will be increased rather than diminished, by making game pro-
perty. For what is it but creating power, and consequently the
right to exercise that power, and moreover placing this in a class,
many of whom may perhaps he without any education; and where
this is the case, are always found to be the most oppressive.—" Set
a beggar on horseback and be will tide to the Devil." Sir, inimical
as I ant to the practice of poaching, which is the beginning of the ca-
reer of a thief, Lam as ready as any man in this 1-louse to sacrifice
any private consideration fur the public good ; but until I have better
reasons adduced, and more cogent arguments brought forward, I
must remain in the opinion I now hold, that, if this Bill is passed,
there will not be one poacher the less; nor will demoralization in
any degree be checked, but will be extended. But beyond all this,
I have yet a still stronger objection to this measure, viz. that it
adds one more to the catalogue of felonies to be inscribed on our
Statute Book, already, unhappily, too full; for night poachers, after
the third offence, are to be liable to transportation ; the consequence
of which will be, that their wives anti families, if they have any,
will come to the parish ; and thew will accrue an accumulation to
the burtheasome and ruinous system of the Poor Laws. Under
this impression, it is my duty to oppose this Bill, which I consider
not only a levelling innovation upon ancient privilege, and an expo.
riment dangerous to be tried, but that it is wrong in principle, and
win be inoperative in its effects. I implore this Honourable 'loom;
to pause before it proceeds farther, and to recollect that
Facilis descensus averni;
bat that to retrace its steps will be impossible,
I Nutt homilies non dii, non concesstre columns.'
I beg leave to move an amendment, therefore, that this Bill be re-
committed this day three months."—This amendment was after-
wards withdrawn.

Saturday se'nnight, at the Guildhall, Newport, a man
named Kirkpatrick, on the information of Ford, a Cus-
tom-house officer, was fined 254 for hawking tea with-
out a license.

ANCIENT ORDER OF DRUIDS —The Anniversary of
this Order was celebrated on Monday, the 3d in•tant,
by the Mona Lodge of Bristol, and some Gentlemen
from the Monmouth Lodge. Stanton Drew, where are the
Druidical remains, commonly known by the name of
the Wedding Circles," was the place appointed for
transacting the business of the day. In imitation of the
custom of the ancient Britons, a rural fete was held on
the spot ; and several excellent pieces of modern and
ancient British music were sung by the bards, who were
arrayed in the costume of the Order. The superior of-
ficer exhorted the members of the Lodges always to
bear in mind the instructions which they had received
upon their initiation; pointing out that charity and inte-
grity ought to be the main-spring of their actions, and
that from these principles alone happiness could flow.
After pledging each other in the beverage used on such
occasions by the ancient Druids (metheglin), they re-
tired from the ground to the house of Mr. Fowler, who
entertained them, thirty in number, in the most hospi-
table manner. There were between two and three thou-
sand spectators present. The meaning of holding the
Anniversary oti this Order at the beginning of the
month of May, may be found in the customs of the
ancients, among whom astronomy was cultivated as
a science. The ancient Druids were great astronomers,
and consequently observers of the periods when the sea-
sons changed. At this time of the year, when nature
appears in her most beautiful garb, they instituted what
is now called in the northern parts of England a Beitain
fete, welcoming the approach of a season which was
most conducive to the pleasures of mankind. These
fetes are still to be found in she observance of May-day.

NIVERSITY and CLERICAL INTELLIGZAR.'
CAMBRIDGE, MAY 14.
At.a Congregation on Wednesday lag, the follbwing degrees were
eonferrid i
Bacurunt s Dttnarr—The Rev. J. Lonsdale, King's College,
Compounder.
Maxus or Ares—The Rev. Henry Harding, Fellow of king's
College.
%camps us Crrn. Law—Ralph Coate, of Trinity Hall.
Bacenewa lit Pursrc--..Thomas Jeffery, of Pembroke Hall.
&commas or A-ors—George Brown Matutin, Fellow of King's
College ; Henry Battiscombe, Fellow of King's College ; George
H. French, of Trinity College, Compounder ; Daniel Sykes, of
Trinity College; James Murray, of Catharine Hall.
It is confidently expected that the Rev. Archdeacon Illomfield, of
Trinity College, will be appointed Bishop of Chester.
Robert Bentley Buckle, Esq. B.A. of Sidney College, wal on
Friday last elected Mathematical Lecturer of that Society.
Saturday last, Mr. Thomas Worsley, B.A. of Trinity College,
was elected a Clerical Fella"' of Downing College.
Saturday se'nnight, the Rev. Henry Freeland, Rector of Haske-
ton, in Suffolk, was appointed alternate Morning Reader of St.
Philip's Chapel, Westminster; and on the same day, alternate
Afternoon Lecturer of the same Chapel.
OXFORD, MAY 15.
Mr. S. W. Cornish, B.A. Fellow of Exeter College, was on
Monday last elected to the (lead Mastership of Ottery Free Gram-
mar School, vacant by the resignation of the Rev. Dr. Warren.
Thursday the following Degrees were conferred :
1311CMYLORS IN DIVINITY—Rev. John Thornton, Wadham Col-
lege • Rev. Thomas Prince, of Wadham College; Rev. Thomas
Fowler Short, Student of Christ Church.
Mangos or A ars—Rey. John George Stork., Magdalen Col-
lege Grand Compounder; Rev. Edward Frowd, Exeter College,
Grand Compounder ; Rev. Charles Nutt, Magdalen College ; Wil-
liam Graham, Christ Church; William Lemuel Sbuldham, Christ
Church; Rev. John Law, Exeter College; Rev. John Roberts, Je-
sus College; Rev. Wm. Asthy Brown Cave, Brasennose College;
Rev. Andrew Alfred Daubeny, Brasennose College; Rcv. Charles
Dethick Blyth, Fellow of St. John's College.
Bacumous or A wrs—Wiliiarn Robert Lavorenson, Esq. Oriel
College, Grand Compounder; George Pike, Sr. Alban Hall; John
Jones, St. Alban Hall; Robert Irvine, Magdalen Hall; Robert
l.ingen Burton, Christ Church ; Edward Seymour, Christ Chinch;
Joho Oakley 11111, Christ Church ; Octavius Brach, Scholar of Je-
sus Colleg; Ralph Maude, Brasentiose College; Thomas William
llt asenuose College ; James Danbeny, Rrasennose College ;
William John Agg, Pembroke College ; Nathaniel Best, Balliol
Collrge ; John I.:await! Armstrong, St. John's College • Francis
Annesky, St. John's College; Thomas Alfred Strickland, Post-
waster of Merton (
Ves:erday, the Nee. John Thornton, some time Fellow of Wad_
ham College, and now Ityctor of Wi3bor".4l-green, in the Dio-
cese of Chichester; and the Rev. 'l'llomas Prince, Fellow of Wad-
ham College, and Chaplain to the British Residents at Brussels,
were admitted Doctors in Divinity.
ECCLESIASTICAL PROMOTIONS.
Ili. Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex has been pleases! to ap-
point the Rev. W. E. L. Faulkner, M.A. of Corpus Christi College,
Cambridge, and Rector of Sr. John's, Cierkenwell, one of his Royal
Highness's Domestic Chaplains.
The Rev. Samuel Seyrr, M.A. to the Rectory of Mon, Glou-
cestershire, on the presentation of Mrs. Manley.
The Rev. Wm. Spooner, I.A. to the Rectory of Acle, Norfolk.
The Rev. It. Downes, to the Vicarage of I.4..amington Priors,
Warwickshire.

SALES OF PROM:RIK

MI. W I 1.1.00 K.

_ ...... _
Freehold.—A Market Garden Farm, situate =Wall End, parish
of F.astham, near Barking, Essex, comprising dwelling-house con-
taining eight rooms, kitchens, garden, orchard, ozier bed, and sun-
dry iticlosures of tneadow' arable, and pasture laud, in the whole
about 59.‘. la. 9r. late in tle occupation of :Ur. It. Gooderharn, at
£l6B per annum, land tau reditmed ; timber, fruit-pees, and
growing crops to be taken at a valuation—sold by direction of the
Devisees in Trust for .C 5,590.
MR. PEYTON.

Leasehold.—No. 3, Upper Fitzroy-street, Fitzroy-square, con-
taining eleven rooms, d stic apartment+, coach-house, and stable,
let at Xuct per annum, and held at a ground-rent of £l6 ltis. for
64 years, land-t redeemed-4'1,040.
MR. AKRON, OF UXBRIDGE.
Freehold and Copybold.—A Farm Estate, comprising dwelling-
house, stabling, detached buildings, and sundry inclosures of arable
and meadow land, together 60a. Su. 22r. freehold ; also 495. 1 on 39r.
ropyh.td, in rise wln.4c 110 A. 01 v. titular lit Bartell, near Hayes,
Aliddleses, and in the occupation of Mr. Edward Shackle, at £l5O
per annum, the Copyhold held of the Manor of llayes, subject to a
trifling quit rent, and customary Elie on death or alienation; timber
included in the purchase—.f6,s2o.
MR. ELLIOT SMITH, OF CAMBRIDGE.

Freels)Ms.—Bedlam Farm, situate at Mane; Isle of lay,within
the district of the Bedford Level, containing 200 acres of arable,
meadow, and pasture land, in the occupation of Alessrs. Smith and
Dunham, at £ll7 per annum, subject to a tax called the Eau Brink
Tax, of 2s. per acre, which expires in 1833; to the Corporation Tax
of Is. 94. per acre ; to the Barrier /lank Tax of 9d. per acre ; District
Tax of 3s. per acre; and laud tax *poll the whole of £2 10s.-
1,100 gainers.
An Estate, the residence of Prior Johnson, Esq. situate at Bart-
low, Cambridgeshire, comprising dwelling-house, containing eleven
rooms' domestic offices, coach-houses, stable, farm-yard, granary,
ihrewhouse, detached buildings, gardens, plantations, and 30 acres
of meadow land; laud-tai sES per annum--4,300 guineas.
MESSRS. BROOKS.

Lemboldg.—Nos.29:,2;,asul Walworth,
total anneal rental £65; held at a ground-rent of £7 10s. for forty-
four years—ATss.
Shares.—Six Turnpike Shares, of £lOO each, leaving five per
cent. per annum, secured upon the tolls on the road from Cam-
bridge to Ely, pursuant to Acts passed in NI and sth of George the
Third—A99 per Share.

AMENDMENT TO THE INSOLVENT DE/lITORS' ACTT
The amended Bill now pending hef.,re Parliament, en-
titled, " An Act to amend, until the Ist day of June,
1825, cer Mill Act. fur the relief of Insolvent Debtors in
England," recites, among other things, the following;
viz.—Prisoners remanded to be confined within the
walls of the prison.—Penalty to be inflicted on Gaoler
for permitting such prisoners to be without the walls.
—Prisoners to be remanded for offences whether opposed
or not.—ln cases of fraudulent debts, &c. Prisoner not
to be discharged till after a period not exceeding two
years.—Every Prisoner subject to be remanded who
does not prove his Insolvency to have arisen from mis-
fortune.—ln certain cases Prisoner to be discharged by
detaining Creditor.—So much of the Act, Ist Geo. IV.
ch. 119, as directs an allowance to be made to Prisoner
to be repealed.—Assignees to proceed to execution when
they think proper.—Prisoner collusively arrested to-be
remanded.—This Act to extend only to prisoners within
the walls of the prison, and not to those removed thither
by writ of Habeas Corpus.—The Court to have power,
at request of Creditors, to remove Prisoner from Prisons
in London, Middlesex, and Surrey, if their usual resi-
dence is elsewhere.— Filing Petition to constitute an Act
of Bankruptcy.—Assignees appointed before discharge
of Insolvent, to make dividend ; and also the Assignees
of Lunatics.--Any person recommended to the Court
by three or more Creditors to be Assignee, the Court
may appoint him though he be not a Creditor.—Provi-
sion of the 3d Geo. IV. ch. 39, to extend to Assignees of
Insolvent.—Voluntary preference fraudulent and void.
—Prisoner omitting any property or books in his Sche-
dule as finally amended and filed, and persons aiding
him, &c. &c. guilty of felony, &c.—Court may order
such part of the Salary of Officers of Customs and Ex-
cise as the Commissioners thereof shall consent to, and
be applied in the payment of such Officers' debts.—ln-
solvents intitled to Lease or agreement for Lease, deli-
vering up the same to Assignees, shall not remain liable
for rent, ',sc.—Lessor may apply to Court.—Costs to be
paid to opposing Creditors in certain cases.—One Com-
missioner may hear matters out of Court, on summons.
—Act to commence on the Ist of Septembers 1824, and
continuo in force to the Ist of June, 1825.

SOCIETY rok TEE PROTECTION OF
RELIGIOUS LIBERTY.

A meeting of the members and friends of the above
Society was held on Saturday, for the purpose of re.
ceiving the Annual Report, Lord HOLLAND in the Chair.
The Report, as usual, detailed the proceedings of the
Society for the past year.
Mr. Mum, the Treasurer, addressed the mee:int at
considerable length ; in the course of which he stated
that several instances had occurred recently of Clergy.
men of the Established Church having refused to butt'
infants that had been baptised by Dissenting Ministers.
In the case of Trimp v. Wilks, it had been decided that
all children who had been baptised in the name of !lie
Trinity were entitled to the rites of Christian ht ;
although, as the law at present stood, the childien of
Baptists were 'exempted, as they are not accustomed to
baptise their children until they are of age. They had
also received letters on the subject of baptismal regis-
ters. The Master of the Rolls had latterly refused to
admit as evidence an extract from the Dissenters' 11,4 p.
tismal Register kept at Dr. Williams's Library, in Red.
cross-street, as he could not consider that registry as a
public record, like these of the Parish Church, but
merely as private memoranda.
Other Gentlemen addressed the meeting to the same
effect; after which thanks were voted to the Noble
Chairman, and the meeting broke up.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

GUI LDHA LI.

The Solicitor of the Treasury applied to Alderman Scitor.iv for
a warrant to apprehend a person named On/Splint, who was brought
before the Alderman no Saturday week, for selling Pane's Age of
'Voisin and Paltucr's Priacildes of Nature. Campion was shopmot
to Carlile, and on returning to the shop he obliged a little boy to
superintend the sale of the copies, coveting thereby to elude the law.
A Bow-street patrol went into the shop and asked for the copy,
when Campion referred him to the boy. The warrant V/ .is granted.
Eliza Cockburn, servant to Mr. Ware, of Skinner-street, atai
brought before Alderman Scirouty, for final examination, upon the
charge of having set fire to her master's house. The case had been
postponed, in consequence of the illness of Mrs. Ware, who had
some important particulars to add. The prisoner appeared quite
careless, and had said on the night of her apprehension, that she
" should like a jolly good supper, as she knew slit: would nut get it
where she was going."

Mrs. Ware erepoTeit, that after the fire had been extinguished, the
prisoner said to her," I wished to let you know that it was I chat
set the house on fire. I was put on, I think, by an tvil spirit to do
it, and I had no other reason."—lt appears that the girl had been
confined a week by her master for misconduct, and 3be had been
in the habit of doing injury to any article of dress which .he could
lay her hands upon. In the lower part of the house tlt..e were
, £4OOO worth of property.
Alderman Scnot.xv having ascertained that no part ,f the hnu;e
had been burnt, although a hed had been consumed, committed
the prisoner for the misdemeanour of having attempted to set the
house on fire.

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