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FRANCE.

MOVEMENTS OF THE DUCH&SS DEMERRI.—The Messages des
Gand gives a circumstantial detail of the passage of the Duchess
de Berri, from La Vendee, through France, and via Ghent,
Brussels, and Aix la Chapelle, to Germany. That journal
states that the information so given is from a confidential source,
and adds that the princess fled from her concealment in France
the moment she heard the news of Alibaud's crime. We con-
fess we are surprised so generally well.informed a journal as the
Messager de Gand should allow itself to be so humbugged. The
adverturous little duchess has in her day played many queer
pranks, but we doubt her doing a tithe so many again.—Age.

LONDON LAIV REPORT.

COURT OF REQUESTS.-THURSDAY.
LARKINS V. WILBERFORCE. _

William Wilberforce, a man of colour from the coast of Gam-
bia, was summoned at the suit of Thomas Larkins, a portrait
painter to show cause why he refused paying the sum of one
guinea, which he contracted to pay for having his likeness
painted. -
The plaintiff stated that on the second of April last the de-
fendant applied-to him to paint his portrait, which he agreed.to
do for a guinea. The defendant sat no less than nine times,
and on the sth of May the picture was finished and sent honie,
but when he called on the following day for the money, the de-
fendant flew into a violent passion, declaring that it bore no
more resemblace to him than it did to one of the bumeys of his
tribe. His chief complaints were that the face was too white,
and the nose too pointed, and also that the ears were not large
enough, defects which laintiff endeavoured to rectity, but not-
withstanding he had done so to the satisfaction of all who had
seen it, the defendant still persisted that it was a bad likeness,
and refused either to receive the picture or to pay the amount
of his contract.

Commissioner—Have you the picture with you ?
Plaintiff—Yes; exhibiting a half-length portrait of the de-
fendant, as much like him as two balls of blacking can be like
each other.

Defendant—Him no like me, I say, and me no hab him—me
lif me place, so me hab one pictur for cookey, but him no like
me, I say.
The Commissioner having attentively examined the portrait,
declared he considered it a very good likeness for the price.
The defendant then took it up, and, after looking at it for
some moments, pulled out a pocket mirror, in which he carefully
examined his own physog, comparing it all the time with the
pictute, which he at last threw down in a violent passion, saying
Him no like me, him too white—(Laughter)—and him nose
like Pattoo."

Commissioner—" Patton," what's that ?
Defendant—" Gol o' Mity, massa for Judge, not know what
Pattno mean. Him like Pattoo," pointing with much archness
at the poor limner, who had a remarkably small beaky nose—
" Pattoo mean what you call owl."
CommissiOner—But you do not call the plaintiff an owl?
Defendant—Yes, Massa, Lor Judge, him like Pattoo, and
pictu too like Pattoo, Sah, so me no hab him.
Commissioner—But whether you take the pictute or not you
must pay the guinea with the costs.
Defendant—No. massa, -no, me no do dat.; him no like me,
him too white, and him hab no handsome ears, so me no hab
him at all, for me stand handsome, me look handsome, but dat
like a Pattoo.

The Court, however, adjudged, notwithstanding all poor
Massa's eloquence, that he must pay the amount of the plain-
tiff's claim, with costs, and he quitted the court declaring he
would get ." Daddy Buxton" to see him righted.

YORK ASSIZES.-WEDNESDAY, JULY 20.

MELLIN V. TA YLOR.-CRIAL CON.

The particulars of this case, as many of our r-
eaders will pro-
bably remember, were brought before the public at the last as-
sizes for this county. Upon this occasion a verdict for the defend-
ant was returned; but a new trial has been since obtained, upon
the ground that the decision of the jury was contrary to the
main body of the evidence.
Sir F. Pollock, who had come down under a special retainer,
conducted the case for the plaintiff, and was assisted by Mr.
Wightman and Mr. Blanshard ; Mr. Creswell and Mr. Alexander
appeared for the defendant.
The details of the evidence for the plaintiff occupied the court
nearly two days, and the remainder of the second day and Fri-
day was occupied with the defence.
The Jury Jetired about twenty minutes past eight o'clock on
Friday night, and returned into court at a quarter to nine,
with a verdict for the plaintiff damages, one thousand
pounds.
This case has excited great interest throughout Yorkshire
both parties being well known in the west riding, and of the first
rspectability. The verdict has given general satisfaction.

REPORT OF THE IRISH PROTESTANT

ASSOCIATION.

The first report of the " Protestant Association of Ireland"
has just been put into our hands. It is a document to which we
have much pleasure in calling the attention of our readers; and
forms a very happy contrast with the deluge of revolutionary
virulence that proceeds weekly from the O'Connell Association.
The report commences with a brief history of the formation
and progress of the society. "It was formed by a few indivi-
duals, who, contemplatin the accession to their numbers which
has since taken place, did'not feel themselves competent to adopt
any but provisional and temporary arrangements—and they
accordingly deferred the establishment of any regular system of
operation, until the numbers of the association should have in-
creased." The object held in view by the original projectors of
the Protestant Association is pithily expressed in the motto
adopted in the title-page Of the report. ' When bad men com-
bine, good men must unite'—[Burke.l Those who first proposed
its formation, "thought that in the circumstances of the times
there was room for the advantageous exertion of combined pro-
testant strength, and that by associating themselves, and inviting
the co-operation of all who loved the cause of protestantism,
they might be able materially, to serve the interests of that
cause."—The principles on which the association is founded.
are,—"To unite together all who are willing to make common
cause in upholding the religion of the reformation, and the
principles of civil and religious liberty, of which, under God, it
has been the foundation, and for that purpose to employ such
means as may seem advisable and constitutional. To faciliate
and promote the registration of protestant voters, and the dis-
semination of sound political and religious information amongst
our protestant brethren throughout the empire." The method
by which it is proposed to effect such purpose, is thus
described : _

"lst.—By publishing
and circulating, in a cheap and popular
form, political and religious information, intended for the
humbler classes of protestants.
"2nd.—By assisting other conservative societies in the regis-
tration of protestant electors,
"3rd.—By assisting such of our protestant brethren as are
suffering persecution.
"4th.—By promoting the creation of loan funds for the pur-
pose of establishing protestants in business, N. on farms; thus
increasing the number of conservative electors.
"sth.—By employing every legitimate means in our power
to encourage protestants as tradesmen, mechanics, and servants,
and to co-operate with such societies as already exist, having
these objects in view."—Dublin Record.

NEWCASTLE AND CARLISLE RAILWAY.—The western por-
tion of the line extending from Carlisle to Greenhead was
opened on Tuesday week.

Elie Eiberpool ei:tanbarb.

FRIDAY 1110IINI1VG, JULY 29, t 836.

We have no further accounts from General Evans. We'
presume that the shock which his nervous system re-
ceived in the late retreat alone keeps him on the other
side of the Bay of Biscay. We rejoice in being able to
state that there is no truth in the statement of what the
ministerial journalists, with uplifted eyes, term "a scur-
rilous Sunday paper." The General's indisposition did
not come on in the held of battle in the form of a dysen-
tery. He made a most vigorous retreat, and illness did
not overtake him till he arrived at Passages.
In almost every part of the theatre of war the Car-
lists are victorious. In Gallicia, the Chief Lopez,
and nine of his staff, were surprised and captured at
Arsua, at some miles distance from their troops, and have
all been shot at Corunna. This deed will be retaliated,
we suppose, as usual. Such is this war of liberty !
From France, the last advices speak of new plot
against the life of the King. Great precautions are to
be resorted to during the fete of July. His Majesty has
ordered a bullet proof coach to be built. Such are the
enjoyments of regal dignity.

The ministerial crisis of which we spoke on Tuesday
is over for the present; but the effects of it will stick to
all the parties concerned while they live (politically) and
follow them to the grave which is even now:yawning to
receive them. They will be dead and buried long be-
fore their shoes grow old.
The late meeting at the Foreign office let in a flood
of light upon the three-faced monster which is at present
in possession of the governing power of the country.
The ground work of the three bills relating to the
English Church was laid by the Commission which had
its origin in the Administration of Sir Robert Peel.

When the Thimblerig Ministers came into power they
adhered to that Commission, with some few slight alter-
ations. We shall not stop to investigate the motives
which actuated them. It is enough for our purpose to
be assured by the whole tenor of their policy that
what they did was done for their own sakes; and subse-
quent events have shown that if they had brought in
bills, prepared by that Commission, calculated to benefit
the Church, it was not affection for that institution which
prompted them to that cause.

Why do we say this ? We will state our reasons.
At the late meeting in Downing. street, when Hume
censured the Bill for the regulation of the Bishoprics,
and declared his intention of resisting the third reading,
Lord John Russell complained of unfair treatment in
having been permitted to introduce the measure and
carry it through the principal stages without objection ;
and then to be suddenly turned round upon and snubbed
in the face of the public. He was pledged, he said, now,
and must go on, and if confidence were denied him he
must resign, because the eyes of the country were upon
him ; but if he had been made aware of the objections now
urged at the outset, he would not have run counter to
the Radical will and pleasure !
A more rambling or a more disgraceful avowal never
fell from the lips of a Minister of the Crown.
As to Hume and the latitudinarian band which he so
worthily leads, we charge no hypocrisy upon them, for
they never have made a secret of their hostility to the
Chnrch, or of their desire to pull it down.. They are
consistent. But what shall we say of the pious and
" conscientious" persons who call themselves Dissenters
par excellence ? These people have all along cried out
for Church Reform on the principle of benefitting the
Church. Well, the time for Church Reform arrives;
the Crown surrenders its patronage; the Bishops them-
selves set their hand to the work, relinquish patronage,
and many of them surrender large portions of the income
of their sees that it may be divided among those who
starve upon their dignity, and, lo! these conscientious
Dissenters turn round, join Hume and the infidels, and
the unythingarians, and attempt to extinguish the Bill
because, in fact, it does not pass a *lice of Church pro-
perty into their pockets just as the Irish Church Bill hands
over a portion of the property of the Irish branch of the
National Church to the uses of O'Connell and his mob of
Priests. Give us an appropriation clause, they in .effect
cry ; take from the Church, already straitened, already
severely cropped down by the Tithe Bill, some £750,000
a year, that we may be relieved in all time to come from
Church-rates.

It is difficult to say whether this demand is most un-
principled or Most impudent. Even O'Connell was half
ashamed of it; for he advised an acquiescence for the
present. For the sake of Ireland, he said—meaning
himself—he would grant much in order to retain the
Ministers in their places. No doubt. While they are
in (Ace, he rules Ireland at least. No other Ministry
can be found willing to fasten the true interests of the
country for the nauseous support of the country's deadli-
est, meanest, basest enemy.
The "no house" expedient on Friday night was in
perfect keeping with all that we know of Ministers and
their disgusting allies. The bullying-scene of the morn-
ing was succeeded by a begging and praying scene in the
evening. We understand that O'Connell was particu-
larly active ; that he was commissioned to offer large
concessions for the future ; that be was eloquent in his
description of the direful effects of driving the present

convenient tools from their places; and the farce of Mon-
day night was settled in the course of Saturday forenoon
Home, Tom Duncombe, Wakley, Rowley Powley Thom-
son, and others; stuck to their text that if they voted for
what they called the !‘ Bishops Bill," they need not
again sliew their faces before their constituents at the
fast-coming general election ; so that it was arranged
that Lord John should re-enter the third reading for
Monday night; that Hume, in order to humbug the
Middlesex radicals should persist in dividing the House
against the third reading; that even the paid hacks of
the Government, who had the fear of constituents before
their eyes, should vote with him, taking especial care not
to put the Ministry in a minority ; Lord John, in return,
agreeing to throw overboard the bills relating to the
Deaneries and Chapter property and for the more effec-
tual promotion of Chuch discipline, although the latter
has received the sanction of the Peers and has not yet
reached the lower House.

What passed in the Commons, on Monday night, the
reader will gather from our parliamentary report. It
will be seen that the abominable cheating which we
have spoken of was carried into effect. Lord Johnny
moved the third reading, taking care to preface his mo-
tion with the scandalous surrender of the other Bills
under the transparent pretence of postponing them that
they might reecive more mature consideration. Hume
" aggravated his voice like any sucking dove." Lord
John, forsooth, ought not to have been surprised that
he, Hume, the purest and most inflexible of patriots and
Greek-loan-jobbers, should oppose a Bill so little satis-
factory to the friends of reform. He did not wish to
turn • out the Ministry " from whom he expected so
much"—a Baronetcy ?—yet he must be consistent and
act up to his pledges, and would therefore divide the
House without at all wishing thereby to effect the pro-
fessed object of that division, and so forth.

The House was divided ; the Conservatives preferred
the path of honour to turning out a tottering Ministry ;
and Lord John had his third reading by 175 to 44, and
the Bill was sent to the House of Lords on Tuesday
evening.

The annals of faction or of Ministerial scurrility pre-
sents few parallels to this most dishonest transaction.
The disgrace is equally shared between the Whigs and
the Radicals. Well might Mr. Whittle Harvey declare
that he could not reconcile the course which many Mem-
bers were then pursuing with that which was taken by
them at the meeting at the Foreign Office on Friday,
whence it was, he said, that the warmth of feeling had
subsided, and which he had hoped forboded a return to
that system of independent opposition which had slum-
bered throughout the whole of the Session, he could not
pretend to conjecture. Those Members who took a pro-
minent part on the occasion to which he referred, were
pursuing a very tame and suspicious course in the pre-
sent discussion. They were continually told that the
institutions of this country and of Ireland should be
assimilated, and lie could see no reason why this measure
of Church reform ,for England was not framed on the
same principle in this respect as the Irish Bill. If Mr.
Harvey could see no reason, the O'Connells, the Humus,
Wilkses, Ewarts, Bainses, and Potters could see very
powerful reasons. That some of them voted in the
minority does not at all rescue them from the " suspi-
cious course" pointed out by Mr. Harvey ; and if their
constituents do not see the transaction in its right
aspect, and resent it too, why they deserve to be choused
again in the same style at the next opportunity.

The Peers have again done their duty like men in
earnest. What a truly Noble contrast do they present
to the dirty shufflers in the " reformed house." If truth
is a libel, we have just now a desire to be particularly
libellous with regard to the " collective" scum of Whig_
Radicalism.

The Irish Tithe Bill, with its insulting appropriation
clause, came on for discussion, in committee, on Monday
night, and at the end of the discussion, the fang was
again plucked from the mouth of the adder.

We wish we could report the whole debate; but that,
in our confined space, is impossible. We have, how-
ever, endeavoured to convey to our readers a faithful
epitome of what took place.

There were three divisions in the course of the evening.
The first was on an amendment moved by Lord Lynd-
hurst, to the effect that the tithe-owner's property should
be cut down 25 instead of 30 per cent. The learned lord
stated his reasons in an argument which was irresistible,
and 126 to 48 went with him in favour of the proposition.
Then came the O'Connell robbery clause, and that was
flung to the winds by 138 to 47. Lord Lvndhurst's
speech on this point rivals all his former efforts; yet the
Bishop of Exeter's speech showed that even the intel-
lectual grasp of the first man of the day had not ex-
hausted the subject: We are almost inclined to thank
the authors of the appropriation juggle for their inven-
tion, wicked though it be; without it we should not have
had these really splendid oratorical efforts; the more
splendid and valuable that they were called forth on the
side of justice, truth, and common sense.
The ministerial pleaders for wrong-doing, that a fancied
good might come from it, were the eminent statesmen,
Melbourne, Clanricarde, Holland, Lansdowne, Plunkett
—a delightful quintet. We have of course read their
speeches, for that's our vocation, but we declare, 'pon
honour, that we only remember a solitary point hit off
at random by the correspondent of the Hon. Mrs. Nor-
ton. He stated that the rejection of the robbery clause
would prove fatal to the bill; that ministers would not
march through Coventry without it; but that they would
not resign while they had with them a majority of the
Commons, and, as they believed, a majority of the coun-
try ! It is a hackneyed saying that there is no account-
ing. for taste; neither is there any accounting for infatu-
ation. If Lord Melbourne really suppose that a majority
of the country is on his side in this matter, then is Lord
Melbourne irrecoverably immersed in mental darkness.
The argument of the ministerial orators is, that the
Irish branch of the establishment would be benefitted by
being plundered. • They know well that the miserable
demands of the Agitator is father to the pretence. But
if they are right—if appropriation is so good a thing—
if it is so mighty advantageous to a body to have its
heart plucked away—and if it be honourable, and politic,
and honest, to steal from one, to whom the thing belongs,
to give to another who has no rightful claim to it—why
is not the same course adopted with reference to the
English Church ? If it be just to alienate from the Irish
branch of the establishment—which is so poor that if its
revenues were divided they would not give its ministers
an average income of £270 a-year—in order to gratify
the raging appetite of O'Connell and the Romish Priests,
it is equally just to alienate from the English Church
for the purpose of appeasing the equally raging appetite
of the English Infidels and " conscientious " Dissenters
—the Independents, the Unitarians, the Baptists, and
the Warren i tes.

Despite of Lord Melbourne's threat, however, the
Peers will pass an exceedingly good bill for the abolition
of Irish Tithe. Here is real " justice to Ireland;" here
What is calculated to satisfy the actual payers of Irish
Tithes. But no ; the ministers dare not adopt it in a
practical and effective form. The O'Connell sword is
over their heads suspended by a single hair; and they
submit.

Let no person, however, be so simple as to suppose
that O'Connell wishes to settle any question concerning
Ireland. It is his object to keep open as many griev-
ances as possible, because he is a wholesale trader in that
article, and makes an annual fortune by his industry.

When the bill again reaches the Commons, we shall
have a motion for its rejection by Lord John Russell, at
the end of a puling speech ; and O'Connell will give us
the fiftieth repetition of his stock threats, and there the
matter will rest a while. Then hey for the "Justice
Rent ;" of which justice rent the Agitator will contrive,
by hook or by crook—by fraud, of force, or both—to
get hold of a most unjust "appropriation."

We congratulate our readers on the signal triumph
which was achieved at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, on Monday,
in the election of John Hodgson, Esq., of Elswick, in the
room of the late Sir Matthew White Ridley.

Sir Matthew was a whig of the old school; a respecta-
ble, right-feeling man, strongly leaning to the ccnser-

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vative side ;—in short, a man of property and sense,
but afraid to act up to his excellent feelings and princi-

Mr. Hodgson is also a conservative with more cou-
rage. He is ready to support all rational reforms, yet
refuses to be the slave of a party ; of course he is not the
favour with the exclusive liberals and reformers; and at
the last election Mr. Ord was preferred to him by
1843 votes to 1254. But time, the great corrector, has
produced its wonted effect in this instance. The Radfr
cals precipitated the election by an indecently early mo-
tion for a new writ, moved for by that pink of moralists
and politicials, Mr. Cuthbert Rippon, of Stanhope Cas-
tle notoriety; and the Roman Catholic sheriff of New"
castle played into their hands by naming Monday last
as the day of election.—Captain Blackett, a renegate
Tory, now a violent Radical, having been early called
into the field.

Mr. Hodgson was not communicated with till Saturday
afternoon. A deputation had gone in search of him; but
he accidentally arrived in the town by tire Belford coach,
at two in the afternoon. Seeing that the call upon 11119
came from gentlemen who really spoke the sense of the
constituency, he immediately declared himself. In I►i'
address he says he had no wish to come from his retire"
meat, and the sole motive of his coming forward was to
afford the electors the only prospect of rescuing New
castle from being reduced to the condition of a Treasury

Borough.
" My political opinions (he says) are top well known
to you to require me to enlarge upon them here. I will
not now deal in professions, but refer you to my past
parliamentary conduct as contrasted with that of my OP-
ponent, and leave you to infer from the severest test—'
the test of experience—which of us is most likely t°,
promote sound and rational reforms, and to prong"
economy in every branch of the public expenditure."

After a sharp struggle Mr. Hodgson was elected on Tues-
day by a majority of 48—a glorious triumph, affording
of course, to Lord Melbourne further proof that a ma-
jority of the country is with the Magdalen Ministry I

Several of our contemporaries have ',found a mare's
nest in a doCument, just published, bight " the Third
Report of the Commissioners of National Education in
Ireland," which, quoth one of them, " will be read with
great interest, especially at the present time." Among
other fine things it is said to contain "a reply to the
injurious statements of that veracious Prelate, Pr;
Phillpotts, Bishop of Exeter." As Mrs. Malaprop would
say, our contemporary is liberal of his epitaphs; but we
will wager a trifle, if need be, that the "veracious Dr'
Phillpotts, Bishop of Exeter," who is impertinently os"
sailed, will prove more than a match for the whole five
" Education Commissioners", the brilliant Duke °',
Leinster included.

We shall have a word or two to say on this and sorDe
other kindred subjects on the first open day; and shall
endeavour not to forget the officious zeal of Mr. Earle--
in a bad cause.