Star.
London, England, 1829-08-08 00:00:00

the prevalence of the Despot's faction.

On Wednesday, at York, one James Pilling stood up
in the Criminal Court before Mr. Justice LITTLana
charged with uttering forged Bank of England notes for
5/., knowing them to be forged. The unhappy man—
aware, doubtless, of the noon-day evidence against him
—to save himself from the long public exposure, and
heartless ceremonial of the trial, pleaded " Guilty."
The conversation, which this plea superinduced between
the Court and the prisoner, is too remarkable to be passed
tn silence.

Mr. Justice Lirrixoats—l can only say that you will receive
exactly the same punishment as if you were found guilty by the
Jury ; you are deceiving yourself it you persist in pleading guilty.
Prisoner—Yes.
Jamul—lt is a serious charge, and you are liable to be banged.
Prisoner—Well. and mercy on me.
Jonoc—Do you still plead guilty? Primmer—l wish to speak
the truth as near as I can.

Juina—l can only say u I hue said before, that you will not
be more leniently dealt with. Pleading not guilty to an isdictment
is not telling a falsehood in the name of Geo—it is ow taking an
oath or committing perjury—it is only denying the charge, whisk
must be prayed by the prosecutor.
Prisoaer—l mast plead guilty, my Lord.
Jonas—Consider, prisoner ; I will allow you tint, fee con-
sideration.

Primmer (after a few minutes' parse)—T am guilty, my Lord,
and have mercy upon me.

Joan—Then you are determined to plead guilty.
Prisoner—Yes, my Lord.
jyron--Very well.
The pannier was then removed from the bar.

....:Now, we ask, is it not disgusting to hear language
like this—in mockery of all truth and morality—fall
from those lips, whose utterances ought to be purest jus-
tice ? To hear the oracle of human righteousness proclaim
the righteousness of a lie : nay—urge the telling it
upon an already wincing conscience, as being no per-
jury in the,siiht of Gin, before whom and his country
the .prisonee.-deelares by that holy help that he will
ahideVre Mire?'" " Pleading Not Guilty to an indict-
ment is,not telling a falsehood in the name of GOD"—
What then ? Only in the name of the Law. This
is a sorry subterfuge, Mr. Justice •LITTLEDALE,
and as dangerous—from your mouth—as it is sorry.
But it has not even the merit of an evasion: it is in
itself a deliberate falsehood, laid down by the dictum of
the Judge. Are not all our criminal formalities insti-
tuted in the name of GOD ? Is HE not=by this pro-
fane and impious application of his sacred name—a
party before whom every culprit is arraigned . and
tried? How, then, is it not lying in the naive of Gon—
and in his face too—to attest HIM under those solemn
circumstances with a wilful denial of the truth : a denial,
mark, not even palliated by the principle of self pre-
servation, since the prisoner is told that whether he speaks
true or false, the consequences will be the same to ;aim ?
"It is not'ltaking an oath, norcommitting perjury:"
granted, my Lori Justice LITTLEDALE. But is the
inunoralit less flagrant in the sight of HIM, " whose
eyes are too pure to behold iniquity," because the cere-
mony of legal obligation has not beim imposed upon the
attester ?. Bedtime the palpable outward administration I

of judicial swearing is foregone ? Is it not lying equally
to the cauciexce : is it not lying—u the Scripture
phrases the Holy Ghost?
" It is only denying the charge, which must be proved
by the public prosecutor." This " ONLY " is, indeed,
a finisher : it is the climax of legal hypocrisy. We have
no time to extend our commentary, but we have said
enough to rouse up reflection in others. Can that sys-
tem of national jurisprudence be pure, which is founded
upon prescriptive falsehood ? Which opens all its cri-

minal inquiries with a fie ? and which—when the ar•
raigned delinquent recoils from the proposed aggrava-
tion, as he considers it, of his legal crime —presses the
perpetration of it upon his sorrow-laden and already
guilt-mitten conscience ? Answer us, my Lord Justice
LITTLEDALE

CITY. Twst.vs colta.ocE.
We have a very barren morning for intelligence ; not even a
single Foreign Mail has arrived, and only two %MIAS of Alp
letters. and tley are of little consequence.

Consols, wbkb left WI yesterday at eel i foe the Amount,
opened at the same pike, and afterwards were dement eel. At
present they ue se};, with a few minor bargains doing.
CITY, HALF•PAST ONE O'CLOCK.

We still remain epithetic any information tor reports. wow
queudy there is a dead aka in the City. Consols have boussielln
dosing the awning at tea and eat. with sense business du .lag
not so a considerable amount. Consols continue Ara at Mir
at On buyers.

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la the Foreign Market the chief business doing was In Risdass
Book, width condone improving.
We can state with confidence, says our City corre-
spondent, that the present Quarter's Revenue is going on
very favourably, and that already there is a surplus of
400,0001. although two-thirds of the Quarter are yet to
expiAre.
vessel has arrived from Oporto, but her letters are
not so late as the last received. Accounts, by the above
vessel, has arrived-10 or 12 persecuted POrtugmese
have made their escape.
We are informed that a good deal of duty has been
paid on Sugars at the Custom-house ; and on Corn there
has been already paid, this quarter, 150,0001.
It is expected that Government are going to do some-
thing to relieve the West India merchants, according to
their late application.
The following has been sent by the Count Villeneuve,
Commandant of Havannah, to the Custom-house in that
Island :—" The Caffrey of the Treasury being in urgent
need to collect all monies, owing to the pressing orders
recently received from his Majesty, I therefore shall at-
tend to the fulfilment of its execution, which shall take
place in the most regular form ; and I am resolved that
one of its measures shall be the gathering of the duties
specified by the tariffs of this Island, applicable to mer-
chandizes of the Peninsula coming under foreign Bags :
the duty is 21 per cent."

UNIVERSIT Y INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD, AUGUSTS.

The Rev. Dr. Barton was !aligned Canon of Christ Chord on

Setural"
Monday
last, at the visitation of Abingdon school, the following
I gentlemen were elected to Scholarships at Pembroke College :
Tesdak fespodation—Mr. H. Percival Skelton, Mr. Martin Haw-
kins (founder's kin), Mr. Wrack, Mr. Thomas Goodkke.
Wightrack Fomusdetiew—Mr. Strange.
The Rev. John Manley, M.A. of Wahine College, is presented
to the Rectory of Upton Hellion, Devonshire, mid by .the death
of the Rev. Jobs Hugh Paisley Poison.
A Dispensation has passed the Great Seal, enabling the Right
Hon. Lord Anson. M.A. late Student of AMA Church, to hold
the Vicarage of Tunworak, in the county of Warwick, with the
Vicarage of Tardebrigg, Worcestershire, void by the death of the
Rev. Philip Wren ; both in the patronage of the Sari of Plymouth.'
The Rev. Robert Bateman Paul. M.A. late Fellow and Teter
of Exeter Caine, and Vicar of Long Wittenhante Berks, has been
lostinited, by the Risks" of Llandaff to the Vicarage of Lantwk
Major, with Rectory of Liswerney annexed, in the county of Gls-
morgam—Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Gloucester.

The Rev. Joseph &udholme, M.A. Fellow of Jesus College,
Cambridge, has been instituted, by the Bishop of Ely, to the VI•
cange of Great Wilbraham, Cambridgeshire, on the presentation
of Mrs. Hicks.
The Rev. J. Skelton, Chaplain at Wykebam Abbey. to the Vi-
carage of Wold Newton, on the presentation of the Hon. Marina-
duke Langley. of the .former place.
The Rev. Joseph Irvin, Curate of Hackneys, to the Vicarage of
Brampton. om the presentation of Sir George Cayley. Bart.
The Rev. Thanes Irvine, to the Perpetual Curacy of Ulrome,
is Hoidernest. vacant by the death of the Rev. J. Gilby.
The Rev. J. Bower, to the Rectory of Darlington, vacant by the
death of the Rev. J. Why.
The Rev. tbomas Sutton, Vicar of Sheffield has been pleased
to appoint the Rev. W. Fang, M.A. Fellow and Tutor of Queen'.
College, Cambridge, to be the Minister of St. Mary's Church, in
Bran oaf-lane. now nearly completed.
The Rev. Frederick Urquhart, to the Rectory of West Knigh-
ton, with Broadmayne.
The Itev.Charles William Woodley, B.A. to the Vicarage of St.
&ythians, with the Chapel of Tenan ArwothaU, Cornwall.
The Rev. Henry Dyke, B.A. to the Vicarage of Trelynt, in
Carswell.
The Rev. F. W. Sharpe, to the Perpetual Curacy of Mooyash,
Derbyshire.
Thursday the Senate of the University of Glasgow conferred
the degree of Doctor in Medicine on Mr. Robert M'Cowan,M.C.
Putt of Spain, Trinidad.
Wednesday the dth inst. the University of Glasgow conferred
the degree of Doctor in Medicine on Charles M'Arthur, Esq.
surgeon. Royal Navy.
Wedneadaytke itlt inst. after the usual examinations, the &-
flatus Academia's of the University of Glasgow conferred the
degree of Doctor in Medicine on Robert Armour, Esq. surgeon,
Trinidad, formerly of Irvine.

EDWARD DARNELL, Esq. of George's-street, has
bees sworn an Attorney of hit Majesty's Court of Subtqaer hf
Ireland, and admitted a Member of the Honourable fibliety of
King's Into.
Baron M'CLELLAND is at present So seriously ill as
C. be unable to go any further on Circuit. His Lordship presided
,la Dundalk on Thursday during some /Via Prism trials ; at the
conclusion of which he proceeded to his residence at Riveasdale,
where be hat ever since remained. The health of his Lordship
bas been rapidly declining for some time past. We have not Pend
who is to succeed him on the North-eastCircuir.--NeseryTelfgrepk.
Major WILLIAM NUGENT MiNAn.taA has ad-
dressed the freeholders of the County Clare, proclaiming it his full
and Sled determination at the next vacancy, without regard to
who the candidate opposed to him may be, to solicit that honourable
station which they proffered hint on two former occasions, and the
recollection of which shall be cherished with gratitude to the latest
period of his existence.
Mr. O'GORmAw MAHON has publicly addressed the
Electors of the County Clare. He seeks the representation on
nearly the same grounds as Mr. O'Cousaxx.
Mr. SUGRUE, from the Roman Catholic Association,
attended a meeting of Mr. O'Cossues friends at Eunis, on
turday. in order to a settlement of several Electio* claims. Mr.
Sunaus demurred to at least three-fourths, upon which a violent
uproar commenced. and the claimants were so noisy that an ads
journment was carried.
A. M. Swain, Esq. is appointed Solicitor to the
Board of Excise in Ireland, in the room of Mr. Dunn'' who has
been appointed Solicitor to the English Board. The salary at-
tached to the once is stated to be 1,7301. per annum.
Major CARTER has been ordered by Government to,
proceed to Borrisokane from Ballibay, where this useful public func-
tionary will reside, at least for the present, in order that be may
assist in the preservation of the peace in that town.
GEORGE HASSARD, of Skea, Esq. County FOTIMI..
nagh, has been appointed a stipendiary Magistrate for the emalles
of Fermanagh, Cavan. and Leitrim.
Sir W. W. W YNN is now on a visit at inueiliVotar
Castle with Lord. Viscount Oeay.