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44 The House being informed that Mr. Archdale attended. ac-
cetding to order, his letter to Mr. Speaker was again read ; and
the i I Statutes qualifying persons to come into and Wt and
vote In this House. were read, viz. of the 30 Carl. 11. 1 Will. et
tlsriz, and 7 and 8 Will. et Maris ; and then the said Mr. Arch-
dale was called in ; and he came into the middle of the Hansel al.
most to the table.

0‘ And Mr. Speaker, by direction of the House, asked him wise.
tiler he had taken the oaths, or would take the oaths, appointed
to qualify himself to be a member of this House; to which be
replied, that in regard to a principle of his -religion, be had not
'taken the oaths, nor could tale them. And then be withdrew. • '
" Ordered, that Mr. Speaker do issue Me warrant to the Cletki
of the Crown, to make, out a new writ for electing a bargees to
serve In this present Parliament, for the borough of Chipping Wy.
comb. in the county of Bucks. in the room of the said Mr. Arch.
dale, who haat refitsed to qualify himself to be a Menace of ibis
HAM, by taking the oaths by law appointed for that purpose:.

La't week Mr. Thomas Leslie, of North Shields.
butchered& cow which he bought or a person at Holly.
well, who informed him that the animal had eaten ow-
half of his waistcoat in the year 1816, in the pocket of
which was some money. This caused him to examine
the bag, in which he found two sixpences and some
butons, which were nearly decayed. The silver is
grestly defaced, butahe date still visible.
Two brothers, of the names of Peter and Joseph
Anys; have been recently tried at Brussels, for robbing
and murdering a young woman of the, tame of Peeters,
to whom t':e latter prisoner was about to be married.
'Their vittim had been seen going into the cottage e
the prisoners, with 43 crowns in her possesion, and ha
aftet wards ran nut, pursued by the prisoners. and in is
few days her body was found in the river Denda. The
brothers were suspected and arrested, and a strong ch•
cumstaa al evidence was adduced against both of
them. Another brother of the prisoners had confessed
to the robbery. Thejury found the prisoners guilty of
robbery attended witis,violence, but acquitted them .of
the murder.
A singular but fatal accident occurred to an infant
ahem nine months old, at Mead-row, near Godalming,
ch the 16th inst. From the evidence before a Coronet's
Inquest. it appeated that the mother of the child (the
wile of a labouring man, named Duke), who lived i
a cottage by the roadside. had, during the absence of
her husband at work, dressed her babe, and left it in
bed in an enclosed apartment (without any attendant).
o a stump bedstead, by the side of whichwas a bucket
o water she had neglected to 'remove; that about half
an hour afterward", one of the neighbouring eottager's
cbildtersaihaving accidentally gone into Duke's cottage;
discovered the infant in the bucket, with its head•corn.
pletely immersed in the water, having, as it was eel.
• dent, rolled off the bed into it, and although assistance
was at hand, and every effort eised to restore suspended
animation, it was unavailing. Verdict,Accidental Death.
An Inquest was held at the King's Arms. James.,
street, Buckingham-gates on the body of T. Darman,
• aged 77. H. Walker stated that, on Saturday week he
was alarmed by the screams of the deceased, who kept
• a donkey aad tart; and on going to him found both
him and the duakey on the ground, the latter having
deceased's leg in his mouth, which it was biting most
• tensely, and it was not till he had stunned the animal
by repeated blows on the head that he could extricate
'it. The leg %S as moat dreadfully lacerated. and deceased
was taken to the Hospital, where be died.—A Juryman
asked what had become of the animal ? and was told
•it had been sold through two or three different hands,
each of whom had been apprised ri the circumstance.'
The widow said her husband had had it five years, and
it was only within three monthilt had become vicious.
•The Jury said it ought to have been killed, and returned
a verdict •of killed by the bite of a donkey, with a deo-
dand of 1.1. 1 Is:6d. its full value ; and directed a con-
stable to search fur it in order that it might be destroyed.
The late Lord Hermand, when presiding on a trial
Where life or death was at stake, was proceeding with
that solemnity which distinguishes our Justiciary Courts
ttrer those of our neighbours, when a wag entered the
Court, and set a musical snuff box a playing " Jack's
Alive" upon one of the benches. The venerable Judge,
who was to the last most admirably acute, stared for an
instant at a sound so unusual in a Court of Justice, and
nevi a frantic demeanour exclaimed—" Macer, what,
is the rt +me of GOD, is that ? The officer looked around
bide in vain ta answer the inquiry, when the wag ex-
claimed—" It's Jack's • Alive, my Lord."--in Dead or
alive, put him out this moment." "We canna grup
him, my Lord.". 4, If he has the att of Hell, let every
man assist to arraign him before me. that I may com-
mit him for this outrage and contempt." Every one ep-.
dearoured to discover the author of this annoyance, but
he had pet the check upon the box, when the sound for
a time ceased, and the Macer informed his Lordship
that the person had escaped. The trial proceeded, when,
in about half an hour, sounds of music again caught
the ear of the Court. "Is he there again?" exclaimed
his Lordship. "By all that sacred, if he shall escape
me this tinse—fence bolt, bar the doors of the Court.
and, at your peril, let a man, living or dead, escape."
All Was now bustle, uproar, and conkion; but the
,search was equally vain as before. His Lordship be-
gan to imagine that the sound was something more
Than earthly, and exclaimed—" This is a deceptio auris ;
it is absolute delusion, necromancy, phantasmagoria,"
and to the hour of his death never understood what
occasioned the annoyance that day to the Conit.—
Edinburg/I Paper.

PUBLIC MEETING AT BIRNINGIIAM.

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ABRIDGED !Inn( ZlRMlNbnelt 'JoMAU
A Public Witting, to form an auxiliary branch of
the Society for Promoting the Religious Principles of
the licformation, has been held at the Royal Hotel.-
The High Bailiff took the Chair.
Captain GORDON, one of the Deputation from the
Poem Society, stated the objects of this Society to be,
to promote the religious principles of the Reformation,
to assist the local Clergymen of Ireland. by the publi-
cation of tracts in furtherance of those principles and
to circulate intelligence of the moral condition of Ire•
land, and the state of the Reformation in that country.
He wished it to be distinctly understood that the So-
ciety disclaimed all connection with politics, and held
ent no temporal indatements to proselytism.
The Rev. E. BURN moved the first Resolution.
• R. SPoonen, Esq. seconded the Resolution.

The Rev. Mr. 1114DouNELL complained of the con-
duct shown by the party opposed to him. He said the
Roman Catholics in this town had endeavoured to live
in peace with their Protestant brethren, in which en-
deavour they had succeeded ; but now, when the bonds
of peace were scarcely cemented between the Catholics
and Protestants, these were a number of emissaries sent
among them froM a distant Society, for the purpose of
exciting and ex9perating hostile feelings between. them.
If they were so zealous for reformation, why need they
look to the Roman Catholics of Ireland, when the Pro-
testants in their own country were sunk to the lOwest
degree of crime; and it would 'be much better to try
to reform them, than to cause disunion by trying to
spread the Protestant religion in Ireland. The Rev.
Gentleman then alluded to the crimes which he said
existed among the Clergymen of the Church of Eng-
land, and asserted that the Protestant population of this
country was becoming rapidly more &moral. He
alluded to Luther, the first teformer, and commented
on the immorality of his life after be had changed his
faith; and he asked if this state of immorality which
followed the first reformation was that to which the
society now invited the people of Ireland? He concluded
by moving as an amendment to the Resolution, that
the meeting be forthwith adjourned.
Captain GORDON, in reply to the Reverend Gentle-
man, after alluding to his attack upon the morality of
the Protestants, said he should be willing to reduce the
principles of the Reformation to that test.and he thought
it would be found that the balance cf morality was
,much on the side of Protestants; besides, it should
be remembered that most Prctestaots who were guilty
of Crime were found to be totally ignorant of Protes-
trot principles, whilst the Catholics would be found to
possess so ardent a belief in the principles of their re-
ligion that they would be willing to carry them to the
stake. He quoted extracts from tbe Rev. J. Doyle's
worts, to show what was the state of the morality ( f
the Catholics of Ireland, from which it appeared, by
that Reverend Gentleman's account, that the Irish po-
pulation in his district were living in the lowest state of
'vice, whilst there were not ten out of a hundred who
would refuse, nevertheless, to shed their blood for the•
preservation of their faith. What, he asked, could they
expect from such a religion ? Could they
.expeet it
could ever beCome a fit instrument for the inculcation.
of morality? With regard to what they were to give
the Roman Catholics instead of their own faith, he would
read to the Reverend Gentle Men the Roman Catholic
articles of faith. He would Present them with the first
twelve of those articles, *filch were formed pt the
Council at Trent, and would throw the rest into the fire
las superibductions of the Church of Rome. • He• would
also put into the hands of the Catholics the Gospel of
St. John, and then they would be in possession of *full
directory for their.faith. He then reverted to the at•
tacks of Mr. M'Donnell on the character of Luther.
That great man, he observed, was not the model of the
Protestants, but the Scriptures alone afforded the model
they,followed in the character of Jesus CHRIST. He
read some extracts from Erasmus, however, to prove
that Luther was a strictly mural instead of an immoral
chatacter; and he said the chief fault of that great re-
former was, that he touched the Monk's belly end the
Pope's crown—(The rallantCaptaio was loudly cheered
at the conclusion of his address).
Mfr. M'Donnell's amendment having been seconded
by Mr. Hurne, was put to the vote, and lost by a large
majority. Two cheers were given on the Chaim:se
announcing it to have been negatived.
The Reverend Mr. Emutot., a,Catholic Prie t, next
addressed the Meeting, previous to the putting the on
gine' resolution. He principally directed the attention
of the Meeting to those teats of Scripture in which the
unity and unchanging nature of the Church of CHRIST
are mentioned, which he considered to be iutended to
apply to the Church of Rome.
Mr. hl.Donnell and his friends complained loudly of
unfair play during the discussion, principally because
they were not altowed to speak for more than the pi-u-
-p:reed time, and to the expressions of disapprobation
which, from time to time, hoist forth. 'rime Meeting
was very well attended, and, though aufficiently noisy,
there was not so much tumult as might have been an-
ticipated.

Oti the 13th instant, a dead whale, measuring 51 feet
in length. and 11 across the tail. was cast on ►hore on
the-Duchess of Roxourgh's psi/petty, near Dunbar. Her
Grace's agent sold it for 211.
The expense of public buildings seems to be almost
as great in France as in this country. The new prison
for females, which is to be erected in Paris, will cost
three millions of francs; whereas, at Geneva, the peni-
tentiary prison, which. though small, is reckoned the
finest in Europe, cost only 285,000 francs; and at
Berne, a new prison, which is now building, to contain
400 prisoners, will cost only 750,000 francs.
It is with feelings of deep indignation we state, that
during the last few days, some dastardly-minded fellows
broke, disfigured, and cart iei away a considerable pot.-
Lion of the Bore Stone, celebrated as that in which
Banos erected his standard, on the memorable day
when Scotland's freedom was achieved on the field of
Bannockburn. This solid whir, which has stood so
many storms unmoved, is now rapidly yielding. to the
chisel and the hammer of the idly curious, or envious
and invidious visitors; and it is a notorious fact, that a
very considerable portion of the stone has been carried
(iff within these few days, so that the bore or hole where
the Scottish standard stood, is totally defaced and gone.
There can be little doubt that the object of the barbarous
spoliators has been to turn their theft to good account,
by getting it fashioned into fanciful articles to be dis-
posed of as relics. We trust, ho% ever, that the contempt
which the act must universally excite. will prove the
means of destroying their hopes.—Stirling Advertiser.

CORMEXCHANOF., MARK-LAN& Jim: 113.
la consequence of the ►easy rains since last market-day, higher'
prices were asked for line samples of Wheat, which were not com-
plied with; but Ism the least doubt is entertaieet that Monday's
prices would have been easily obtained. Oats Were eiactly in the
same condition—higher prices demanded; bet abet obtained- Do-.
Partials, elm Monday &500 qrs. Whcat,loo qrs. parley, 1,400
1 vs. Oateolad 1,400 sacks-Slow. .