Star.
London, England, 1825-08-17 00:00:00

UNION-HALL

Among the night charges brought before the Magistrates at this
dace yesterday for inveedgation, was one in which too Naval 0111-
sers and a Militaryfienllenran were deeply interested. The following
is a brief outline of the facts which were laid before the
The three defendants, who answered to the mince of Harvey;
Cooper, and OsiA, which were merely new *pun?, were charged
by Hall, the aid constable, and two other Seers, with being in
a state of intoxication, and with conducting themselves in a very
riotous manner, at the Royal Gardens, Vauxhall.
The charge having been fully proved by Hail.
Mr. SCRIVII2I, the Chairman of the Quarter Sessions, who hap-
pened to be present, remarked that four o'clock was much too late
an hour to keep open such a place of amusement as Vauxhall Gar.
dens, and the proprietors ought not totountenance it.
There being no wish on the pan of Hall or the constables to
proceed further in the business, the defendants were ultimately
discharged, On making a pecuniary compensation to Hall for his
tern thin, and on each paying a fine of Ss. to the King for being
in a state of intoxication.

The last letters from India contain a great variety of
scientific as well as political information. They par-
tleularly mention the rage in Calcntta for phrenology.'
A doctor PATERSON is delivetiog lectures en this sub-
ject, and the Carcutta papers for February and part of
March are nearly filled with the reports of the leCtores,
and with discussions'npon them. A new system awn.'
strutting bridges over the torrents and rapids, has been
adopted With much success. Instead of rope they are
now fbrmed with cane, which is stronger, lighter, and
more durable. There are some 125 feet long.
Wive Senate of the City of Rio de Janeiro lately ap-
plied to tbe Emperor Porno for leave to take the first
steps towarda erecting a statue to him as founder of the
Empire of Brazil, • The - request being granted, the
Senate, on the 15th of May, published a Proclamation
announcing the fact, and stating that the means of car-
rying the proposed measure into effect would be taken
into consideration in a General Keeting of the Chamber.
The accounts from Ireland are very favourable:—
The corn harvest has commenced, and promises to ..be
very abundant, and the late genial showers have been
of great service to the growing potatoes. There is
ample employment for the poor, and the country
throughout enjoys tranquillity.
The rains which have fallen during the last week
have' entirely changed the face of the country. Vege-
tation and pasturage have been, in a great measure, re-
stored ; the grass lands exhibit a rapid progress to their
!huml verdure, the cattle are proportionably abridged
:Peir daily rations Of old bay ; and the large fi.
sures which opened it the rising lards 'are beginning
to fill rep.

DONATIONS 71, THE-ROMAN CATHOLIC
The decision recently prnhoanced by 4ite Court cf
Vienne,, in France, whereby the will of a rich ..widow,
who" bequeathed all her property to an ecclesiastic, was
annulled, is likely to be productive of heneficialatonee-
, quences to society. There are net many who Will be
sorry to see that rapacious'and. artful', piety" deprived
of ill•got spoils, that watared the bed of death with at
view to take advantage of the fears and ;nit mities of the
huthan mind. •It was'this practice, which in the dark
ages accumulated the wealth of the Church, and impoL
verisbed its character. But too often the minister of
ligion, when called to afford consolation to the afflicted
and broken spirit, platined, in the midst of the agonies.
of nature, the robbery of the widow and the orphan•-i
He taoliht the dying person, on whose conscience the
recollection of his misdeeds pressed heavily, that by be.
queathing his goods to what were called plows uses, be
could appease the anger of Heaves:, and purchase, be
the ruin of his relatives, the peace of his own soul. Be-
fore the Reformation in England, so prevalent a custom
was it with priests to extinguish the natural sentiments
of humanity in their dying communicants, and cc ob-
tain their estates in this world, in exchange for the hope-
which they gave them in the next, that the cisil authcs.
City at length found it necessary to idterrese anti ph-
vent all the property of the kingdom from being trans-
ferred, by will, itito the possession of the priesthood..
Before the Statute against pious uses was passed, the
more the priests blessed the memory of the dead, the
more.reason had their nearest rely ions to excv.ate them.
Th.; heir-at-law often became a mend cant at the pie
of a monastery, for a piitanc? of the wealth whi. h the
cunning of the churchmen had extorted from the eying
grasp of his parent. Infants horn to ample fort:rte.
were made outcasts from their homes, and high-bred
and delicate females thrown on the cold chatity of-the
world. It is, therefore, phasing to every humane and
well-regulated mind to know, that at a time when
priestcraft is attempting its ancient ascendancy in
France, a Court of Law has had discernment enough to
be aware of the evil, and virtue enough to avert it.
It appears by a document recently published, that in
the last twenty-two years the donations and bequests to
religious houses in France, have amounted to nearly
23i millions of francs in money, 700,000 francs iu
annual dividends, and 6% millions in landed velvety.
Besides this, there have been given or restored to the
clergy, by private individuals, 384 houses, 1,077 pieces
of land, 618 acres. f culture, 28 libraries, 56 churches.
37 chapels and alibeys, 3 convents, and 174 parsonage
houses. The number of donors too is very remark-
able, amounting to 13,082, of whom 7,841 are men,
and 8,241 women. It had been generally supposed
that the greater part of these donations were made br
females, but an exact enquiry has proved the fact to be
very different.

Horse races have been established at Bogota, in Co-
lombia. Colonel CAI:PULL, and blr. HIND/MON, the
British Consul, are among the Stewards.
The case of Bell v. Hill (a-Methodist preacher), for
defamation, tried at York Assizes, and in which a
verdict of 5001. was obtained, has been investig .140. at
the Annual Conference of Preachers in that cormesion,
and the Rev. Defendant ordered to be putlicly'tea-
sured, in the presence of his bretheen, and to be sas-
pended—not from Preaching—but from acting as a
snperintendant—for five years. -- -
Friday se'nnight, Mrs. Thompson, of the Liverpool
Tavern, in Greenock, and William Cunningharne, fai-
merly mate of the Homer brig, were unfortunately -
drowned in returning in a small boat from Helens-
burgh. They had left Greenock, the one as a warm
and impassioned sWeetheart to visit the daughter of the
other, who was in the service of Mr. Nimmo, of Glatt- •
gow, then residing with his family at Helensburgh.
There had been a quarrel between the parties previ-
ously, and Betty Thompson had rejected the true-
hearted sailor, from some of those undefined reasons
which work upon the female mind. The mother was
favourable to his suit, and the daughter, to avoid
pressing, sought and obtained a situation in the respect-
able family sktinvemeritioned.' • The occasion of the
difference was, however, but trivial. Betsy's bosom
throbbed anew when she saw her husband and her
lover again before her in Helensburgh. .The tide of
affection returned with redotibled. force. The Wedding
day was dzici-41 and 4 was sunshine, lope, and joy:
After a short time; Hrs. Thompson, s ith the eni
Cunningliame, left Heleniburgh to return to Greenock
in an open boat. 'they were seen by the Helensburgh
steam-boat half-way over. but they were seen no moie.
A sister of Betsy's, at Greenock, marvelled that I.er
mother did not arrive. ,Her anxiety became unen-.
durable, and she set or from Greenock to Helensburgh
in search of her. The meeting of the siste. s divulged
the awful truth, and gatie-to the fearful anxieties of
both a horricfcertainty. The mother Was found, and
buried on Wednesday—the lover is • yet in the bosons'
of the waters. The poor girls returned by the G r eedo:k
steam-boat—Betsy hysteric!), and " would' not be
comforted"' The.gaMe of her mother was ever in her
month. Some charitable Ladies endea,oti NI in rain to
sooth her sorrows. She was wild in her grief, and
though now she is calm, her happiness, alas ! is the
stillness of .insanity—her hopes art buried • in, Ole deeds,
and her mind is wrecked for ever.—GlG:vow Free Press.

•
• DIEDit
The 26th ult. at Bath, the Lady Leslie, widow of Sir Rehear*
Leslie, of Tarbert, Bait.
Mr. Bellingham, a Gentleman who lately left Brightest, and had
arrived at C&ltenhim, while' tablas his Ant dinner at a boaiding-
house, fell back in his chair, and in five minutes eapired. Ha has
left a widow and four children, who were abient when this as..
lancholy event happened.
There' is a sporting dub in Killarney, consisting of the Gentle.
men of the neighbourhood. The members of this dub met a few
days ago, to detertnine upon the toasts that should be gives foe the
ensuing season. The health of the Duke of York was objected to,
on the ground of his hiving opposed the Catholic claims. One
Gentleman, however, was desiroui that the Duke's health slttnold
be drank as a print. Gentleman. This was warmly opposid by
Captain Wise, who concluded his objection by observing, " that
his Royal Highness had trampled urge their religion." • The word
religion was scarcely out of the unfortunate Gentleman', mouth,
when he fell upon the ground, antrabathe instatitmeotiely expired.

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