Star.
London, England, 1828-03-04 00:00:00

GLASGOW, MARCH 1.

A case was decided in the Police Court on Thursday
which we hope will tend to preserve peace at public
meetings for religious purposes, which has been of late
very much interrupted. A William Morgan, said to be
a student of medicine, from Ireland, has attended some
late meetings in this city, for the put pose of defending
the Roman Catholic Religion, which he thinks unjustly
aspersed by some of our public speakers, when the state
of Ireland is the subject of discussion. On Wednesday
evening he came prepared to make a speech, and on his
rising for the purpose, being told by the Chairman that,
he could not be suffered to interrupt the business for
which the Meeting had been called by advertisement, an
uproar was made by a number of persons of odd•like
appearance for such' a company, some of them like coal
porters, whose persons must have been unconscious of
ablution for many a day, and who seemed to act in
concert with, and by signal from Morgan ; so that it
was found necessary us commit him to the charge of
son.e peace officers, who carried him to the police
office; where he was brought to trial on Thursday,
dearly convicted of disorderly conduct, and bound over
to keep the peace for twelve months, under a penalty of
one hundred pounds Scots.—We admit the right of
every man to propagate and defend his religion, in pro-
per time and place ; but there is an end of all public
meetings for business if they are liable to be broken in
upon as this person has done.—Glasgow Courier.

ADELPIII THRATRIL—A new serious Barletta has
been produced at this Theatre during the last week,
under the title of Presumptive Evidence, or Murder will
out. The piece is founded on'" Card-drawing," one of
the tales of the Munster Festivals, and vt e think will be
a favourite with the public. It was performed for the
second time on Saturday evening to a crowded au-
dience. The story possesses much interest, and affords
good scope for the talents of Messrs.' YA•res and T. P.
Coogn. The acting of the for suer as Pryce Kinchela,
ansi that of the latter as Marmaduke Dorgan, are highly
effective, and elicited deserved applause throughout.
The scene between Pryce Kinchela and Judith, his mo-
ther, in particular, is managed extremely well, and is
very affecting. Mrs. YATall, as Pennice M'Leughlen,
the betrothed of Dorgan, threw all that interest into the
character which her natural and pathetic style of acting
yo well enables her to do. In the amusing piece of
Paris and Landort, which followed the Barletta, Mr. J.
Reaves excited his comic powers with great success,
keeping the house in a continued roar of laughter.
ROYAL DOCK-YARD, Pastaaoar.—When his Royal
Highness the LORD HIGH ADMIRAL Visited this Dock-
yard last summer, a film 84 gun ship was launched in
presence, which, upon that account, received the
proud same of Clarence. A line of battle ship has
since been laid down upon the same slip, which is
already is frame, and when finished will differ from
any other vessel in his Majesty's Navy. She is to be
called the ltoJney, and will mount upward. of 90 guns
upon two decks; being bulk upon the tame principle
u the Ohio, Independence, tFranklin, and other A:pe-
lican pretended 74's.