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and others—

ience, all vouch for the

working and practical plan, tha

the sanction of the committee cannot possibly be so
grossly deficient and objectionable as we have been
told. And when we compare, with the experience
arrayed upon the side of Mr. Hartley, the absolute
dearth of the same valuable aid to the formation of a

judgment upon such a question which exists upon the
part of Mr. Gage, and witness moreover the somewhat
inflated tone in which that gentleman's pretensions are
pressed by himself and others upon the Dock Com-

tnittee, we cannot, we must confess, resist impressions
of an unfavourable nature with respect to their solid

and sterling worth

Upon an early occasion we shall endeavour to lay
before our readers a few, explanatory statements, from
which perhaps they may be enabled to arrive at a cor-
rect idea of the question in dispute. At the same time,
we are perfectly satisfied that the Dock Committee are
in reality the proper and sole authority by whom, as
being in possession of all its intricate details, the ques-
tion can be best decided ; and that by its members, as
will be seen from our report of the proceedings yester-
day, it will be fairly and impartially considered pre-
viously to any irrevocable step being taken.

The important case of HEARNE V. STOWELL is at
length terminated, and the admirable remarks of Lord
Denman in delivering judgment will be found in their
proper place. His lordship administers a suitable but
cutting rebuke to Baron Rolfe, the judge who presided
at the trial, for allowing any evidence to be tendered
irrelevant to the subject which was made the matter of
controversy on the record.

We believe the effect of this decision will he that,
whilst no new trial will take place, each party will have
to bear his own costs incurred up to this period, which,
on the part of Mr. Hearne, have been very considera-
ble.

A correspondent in a Manchester paper calls atten-
tion to the fact that the poor in that town are made to
contribute weekly instalments towards Mr. Hearne's
expenses, four of whom, according to the writer, have
each doled out the sum of twenty-seven shillings, and
yet, he adds, these very persons will be the first appli-

cants for relief from the fund now raising in Manches-

they extract the last farthing from their ignorant and
deluded followers, in order to carry out their inic

uitous

and selfish projects, and they then throw their dupes
upon the bounty of the Protestant public.

Lord Clifford, of Chudleigh, Devonshire, presided
ast week at the dinner of A Catholic benevolent society
in this town, and did not, on this occasion, give the
health of Gregory XVI., Pope of Rome, before that of
his and our most gracious Sovereign. This was an
improvement, and is a fact worthy of observation. His
lordship took the opportunity to account for his lapse
on the former occasion ; but the explanation was so
full of nice distinctions and jesuitical subtlety, that we
protest we have not been able fully to understand it.
The object of the former meeting was, it would seem,
very religious ; so religious that it might be deemed al-
together spiritual. At such a solemn season, there-
fore, he thought the Pope should be first in his mind,
and her Majesty, who is only his civil ruler, might be
content to hold the second place in his attention. Ac-
cordingly, the toasts followed in that order. But at
this meeting things did not take quite so religious a
turn ; the affair was more secular, and the Queen was
restored to her proper place in the order of bumpers,
and the bon pere was postponed. This is his lordship's
excuse ; but it by no means satisfies us. We attri-
bute the improvement in his manner decidedly to two
causes much more intelligible to our mind, and pro-
bably more influential with him—and these are, first,

that, as he acknowledges. he got well lashed for his
Pro-popery manifestation on the former occasion, and
secondly, that the Tories were not in power then as
they are now. Oh there is nothing like a free press
au d a goon strong Tory government for making people
Verbura sat.