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lady, and consign both to hopeless penury. That there must
!)e a verdict against his client, he admitted, but he hoped the
July would be content with giving such moderate damages
(my as the justice of the case and the circumstances re-
quired.

Mr. Baron GURNEY then proceeded to sum up as follows:
--Gentlemen of the jury, this case has now arrived at the
Period when it becomes my duty to lay before you the evi-
dence in support of the case on which the plaintiff grounds
his claim for damages for the wrong which he alleges, and
which the defendant admits he has done. It is a case in
which it becomes especially necessary for you calmly and dis-
passionately to take the whole circumstances into your con-
sideration and judgment, in order that due justice may be
done between the- parties. It is for you to say, upon a view
of all the circumstances of this-case, what is the extent of the
injury sustained by the plaintiff ; for by the extent of the in-
jury you must be guided in awarding the amount of compen-
sation. It appears on the evidence that the plaintiff was
married to his lady in the year 1824—that he has three
children, two of them daughters—one daughter having at-
tained the age of fourteen years. It appears further that
the lady is entitled under the marriage settlement of her
father and mother to a reversionary interest in £13,000. It
also aPpears that, at the period of the marriage, the plaintiff
settled the sum of £90,000, the interest of which was
settled upon the lady in case of her surviving him, with
Power to her to apportion the principal amongst their chil-
dren ;- and in case of her surviving him, and the children
dying under 21, then to herself. This settlement is cer-
tainly evidence of very strong affection on the part of the
mthhuoessbtaind at the time of the marriage, and by it he placed
'ally, as far as circumstances are concerned, in a
respectable situation. It appears that for the last
eight or nine years the plaintiff and his wife resided in
Brighton, and that they moved in a most respectable
circle of society. Indeed, one of the witnesses mentioned a
strong and most remarkable circumstance—viz., that during
Hthe whole period of their intercourse he never knew Mrs.
eaviside to be out in the evening unaccompanied by her
husband, but on one occasion. It is certainly very rarely in
society that husband and wife can so invariably be found in
society together. As to the terms on which they lived, you
have the evidence.of four ladies and two gentlemen.who have.
known them intimately, and they have all declared that they
lived together on terms of the greatest possible affection.
[After carefully recapitulating the evidence, his lordship
concluded by stating, that the jury had only to take the
amount of damages into consideration, and to weigh all the
circumstances of the case.]
The jury then retired.
Shortly after the jury retired they again came into court,
and asked, if Mrs. Heaviside were divorced and were married
to Dr. Larduer, would any children of the second marriage
partake of the benefit of the interest of the £20,000 in case
of the death of the plaintiff and Mrs. Heaviside.
Mr. Baron GURNEY said, 'that they were not, under the
settlement, entitled to it, the settlement being only on the
children of the plaintiff by Mrs. Heaviside.
It was then asked, would Mrs. Heaviside, if divorced, be
entitled to the interest of the £20,000 on the death of Mr.
Heaviside ?

Mr. Baron GURNEY said that she would, Unless the legis-
lature in a divorce act provided otherwise. • .
It was again asked, if Dr. Lardner married Mrs. Heavi-
side divorced from her present husband, and were com-
pelled to take the benefit of the Insolvent Act, would he
be compelled to give Mrs. Heaviside the benefit of the
433;000 settled on her by settlement of her father and
mo.ther?

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GURNEY said the jury had not any right to
tbue that point into consideration, but they might, as had
lien suggested to him, consider the loss which Mr.
d.eaviside might sustain in reference to the £13,000, if a
it took place. The learned judge remarked also, that
14 Was evident froin the letters which had been read, that
further correspondence had taken place between defendant
and Mrs. Heaviside, although the witnesses were unable to
Speak to it.
„The jury, after two hours' deliberation, returned a ver-
dict for the plaintiff. Damages EIGHT THOUSAND
POUNDS. •

•
„ Such is the universal love of the Duke of Wellington, and
the fear of his death, that there are people who go to the
length of wishing there could be an act of parliament passed
compelling the duke " to care of himself.
KING OF THE FRENCH.—I regret ex-
ceedinglyiNs OF THE
to state, that a rumour is prevalent, in the best
Fircles, that the King is suffering under an affection of the
heart, which inspires uneasiness in the minds of his friends.
As there is no external symptom in this malady, the public
genera generally, who see nothing in his appearance to indicate dis-
ease, imagine that he is quite well. We know, however, that
taffections of the heart frequently exist without external syrup-
unts. A man may live with such a malady to a very old age ;
but, on the other hand, he may go off quite suddenly. God
grant that the rumour to which I have alluded may be utterly
unfounded ! for never has France had a better, I may say so
good a King: never could society exhibit in so elevated a
position a better man. I shall rejoice to see the rumourcon-
tradletcd . from authority, although I have felt it right to no-
tice it.—Evening paper.
THE SANCTITY OF THE TOMB.—It is well known, that
formerly, considerable alarm was manifested that the grave
would be robbed of its deposits by the intrusion of the
" resurrectionist." An act of the legislature had the effect
of destroying the temptation to purloin the dead, but the
grave is still insecure. Grounds, accustomed to be held
sacred, are unceremoniously cleared under official superin-
tendence; and that too with such ruthless indifference and
wanton publicity, that even passers-by complain of the in-
decent profanation.—Gatherings from Grave Yards.
IMPOSTURES OF THE TURKISH DERVISHES.—The per-
for:fiances of a sect of these pretended devotees I witnessed
at Bagdad. They assembled on Fridays, in a small open
square, which was overlooked by the terraces of the Resi-
dency A little circle of spectators was formed, and the ser-
vice began with a prayer by an Imam, standing in the centre.
This ended, a row of players beat their small drums, and the
exercises commenced. First there stepped into the circle a
man, bareheaded, and naked from the waist upward. He
carried in his bands two irons, in the shape of cows' horns.
Another followed, with the upper part of his person exposed
like the first, but carrying a sword in his right hand. A third
bore two rods of iron, sharpened, like the horns, at one end,
and terminated, at the other, by wooden balls. These re-
volved upon the rods, and, as they revolved, little bits of
iron which hung about them, swung out, and bristled on
every side. As the music played, these devotees became ex-
cited, or, as they would say, inspired. They began to dance.
The first struck the sharp ends of the horns with great ap-
-
parent violence into his side. The second seized the blade
of his sword with his left hand, holding the handle in the
right, and beat the edge with all his might against his
stomach. The third brandished his rods, made the balls
revolve, and then struck the projecting irons with great
violence against his temples and eyes. He would then
thrust the pointed extremities of the rods into his cheeks,
and walk about with the balls elevated in the air. After
the man with the sword had beat himself for a few
minutes, he pressed the weapon upon his stomach with great
force, and, at the same time, stooping forward, the flesh
closed over it, so that he appeared, as he pretended to be,
half cut in two. In this posture he advanced to an Imam
seated in the circle, who laid hold of it by the two extremi-
ties and carefully drew it out, the worshipper, at the same
time, gradually straightening himself, and presenting, when
he was again erect, a body entirely uninjured, while, all the
time, the people stared and gazed and wondered. During
the performance of these juggleries, they cried out with each
blow, " Allah," while the officiating Imam, ever and anon,
called, at the top of his voice, to the people, to pray to the
prophet. The solution of the whole was that these preten-
ders professed to be inspired with divine fury, whilst their
sanctity rendered them invulnerable. God and the prophet
were invoked to save them from harm, of which, in truth,
there was no danger, as the sword had no edge, and the other
instruments no points, and they took care, in using them,
that the force of the blow should be arrested just as it reached
the body.—Southgate's Travels in Turkey and Persia.

VIOLATION OF THE GRAVE.—Decently to dispose of the
dead, and vigilantly to secure their remains from violation,
are among the first duties of society; our domestic endear-
ments, our social attachments, our national prepossessions,
respect and sanctify the resting-places of our forefathers ;
the most barbarous of mankind would burn with indignation
at beholding the last remains of a beloved relative exposed,
maugled, or mutilated ; and yet among us, in a moral and
christian country, the abode of the dead is openly violated,
its deposits are sacrilegeously disturbed and ejected, the
tender solicitudes of survivors are cruelly sported with, and
the identity of relationship is destroyed ; so eager, indeed, is
the haste to dispossess previous occupants, that time is not
even allowed for the gradual dissipation of decaying human
putrescence ; this is eliminated in gaseous profusion, con-
taminating, as it circulates. the habitations of the living.
Whence this rude invasion of the tomb ? How can we re-
concile the previous anxieties of survivors to secure a respect-
able interment with the subsequent unconcern, neglect, or
abandonment of the localities of the dead ? I shall not pre-
sume to solve these questions ; however, I cannot help
thinking that the depredations of the " grave yard" are com-
paratively disregarded, from a feeling and a desire common
to every man, a feeling of unwillingness to believe that his
own friends have been disturbed, and a natural desire to
avoid the renewal of melancholy reminiscences. " All men
think all men mortal but themselves." This self-delusion
is carried yet further, for while every man readily sympa-
thises with others at the disturbance of their dead, he believes
his own depository secure, and his future repose inviolable.—
Gatherings from Grave Yards.
TURKISH TREATMENT OF CHRISTIANS.-011 the morn-
ing of the paschal procession, after the public prayer was
ended, it belonged to the soldiers to carry back the mats which
had served them in their devotions, to the place whence they
were taken. Instead, however, of performing the labour
themselves, they dispersed through the crowds, and singling
out the rayalis (subjects of the Sultan not Mussulmans) who
happened to be there, compelled them to take the mats upon
their shoulders, and bear them for them. The Greeks, whose
buoyancy of spirit nothing can repress, made sport of it.
The timorous and cringing Jews tamely submitted to the in-
dignity in silence. A soldier. followed each one to keep him
from deserting his burden, now and then administering a
kick when he halted or ventured to remonstrate. I saw only
one Armenian seized. He was a young man of respectable
appearance, and refused, when arrested, to perform the scan-
dalous task. Immediately some twenty soldiers set upon
him, and attempted to beat him into submission. He resisted
manfully for a few minutes, while they, standing like a foot-
ball. He offered to hire a porter to carry the burden, but they
persisted in imposing the contumely upon him. Some Ar-
menians sitting in a caf6 near at hand, looked npon the
scene in evident consternation, and soon began to slip off in
another direction. At this moment I approached thnoldiers
with an American friend, who had been with me through all
the scenes of the morning. As we came up they desisted,
and, had we been able to expostulate with them in their own
tongue, the Armenian might easily have been rescued. But
when they found that we had no power to interpose, they re-
commenced their assault, and succeeded at length in imposing
the ignominy on the young man, who walked away under his
burden, sobbing with shame and vexation. We knew that
the insult was forced upon him because he was a christian.
I witnessed other scenes of a similar kind during the following
days of the festival. They filled me with the deepest indig-
nation, but the oppression of rayah became afterwards so
familiar a sight to me, that the first effects gradually ceased.
It is only now, when looking back upon those scenes from
the favoured home of christianity, that I feel a return of the
first glow of indignation, and mourn, as I then sincerely
mourned, over the desolate heritage of Zion, in the lands
where she held her earliest and broadest sway.—Southyate's
Travels in Turkey and Persia.
NECESSITY OF SUPERINTENDING BURIAL GROUNDS.—
I am fully convinced, after the most mature reflection, that
all:the evils apprehended by the French executive, from the
then prevailing custom of interment throughout France, may,
in an increased ratio, be anticipated in this country,—for
until very lately the burial places of the metropolis and of
the provinces have been under no superintendence. Public
bodies or private individuals have been at liberty to allot
grounds or to choose depositories for the reception of the
dead, without limitation as to number, without controul as
to locality, or the disposition of the charge with which they
were entrusted ; and it is proved that private individuals
have availed themselves to an alarming and most injurious
extent of the ignorance or poverty of survivors. I have
shown that in many places more bodies have been received
than could possibly be interred without a brutal and indecent
dispossession of previous occupants, and that the surround.
mg neighbourhoods must necessarily be endangered from the
continutatious ous emanations given off from vaults and grave yards,
m which piles of bodies, confined within their slender habi-
are in some instances methodically, and in others
13"41MOniQubly, arrangedo-Gatherings from Grave Yards,

Ibt tiberpoot tanbarb.

TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 4, 1840.

It is impossible to rise from the perusal of a single
newspaper of the day, whether metropolitan or provin-
cial, without a painful conviction of the awfully in-
creasing prevalence of crime, in its darkest and most
malignant forms. The reports of the proceedings at
the various assize courts in the country are rife with
the harrowing details of deeds of violence and blood.
'l' hese sad details are no less calculated to impress the
mind of the patriotic statesman with feelings of alarm
and apprehension for the welfare and peace of society,
than they are to affect the heart of the Christian with
the mournful truth that we have not amongst us that
" righteousness which exalteth a nation."
No truly philanthropic mind can seriously conte►n-
plate the present aspect of society, especially in refe-
rence to the increase of crimes of the deepest charac-
ter, as evidenced by the records of our courts of jus-
tice, without an endeavour to trace out the sources of
our national iniquities, and an effort to apply some
adequate remedy for their removal. It is a matter of
notoriety that the press, the palladium of our civil li-
berties, has been long abused and prostituted by being
made the vehicle for the dissemination of the vilest and
most abominable principles. For many years past it
has teemed with publications in which Christianity has
been ridiculed—the Bible set forth as a cunningly de-
vised fable—in which the ministers of the gospel have
been represented as designing impostors—the princi-
ples of morality scoffed at—the restraints of law de-
scribed as the instruments of tyranny—and private
virtue and public decency outraged in every imaginable
shape.

To this impure source—a prostituted press—are we
compelled to attribute, in great part, the alarming de-
moralisation of our population. The poison which has
been so sedulously administered to the morbid tastes of
a reading but ignorant public has gradually spread its
deadly influence through the body politic. The bitter
seeds of ribald Atheism and reckless sedition have al-
ready brought forth their congenial fruits. The press
has been mainly instrumental in organising the Char-
tist agitation, which has already led to incendiarism,
violence, and bloodshed. The press has been made
subservient to the spread [of Socialism, a system than
which none more atrociously filthy and blasphemous
has ever been propounded for the acceptance of man-
kind. The press, and, let us add, the stage, have been
the means of familiarising our youth with the charac-
ters and achievements of some of the most desperate
villains that have ever disgraced humanity by their
crimes, or suffered the penalty of death for.their viola-
tions of the laws of their country. We need scarcely
explain that we allude to such criminals as Jonathan
Wilde, Jack Sheppard, and others of the like stamp,
whose exploits as robbers and murderers have been in-
vested with all the charms of fiction, artistical illustra-
tion, and scenic effect, and whose examples, as in the
case of Courvoisier, have already proved a stimulus to
the perpetration of the most fearful crimes.
No man of reflection can, we feel convinced, with-
hold his assent from the preceding truths. No man,
who has the slightest regard for the happiness of his
fellow-creatures, the peace of society, the preservation
of public liberty, or his own personal safety, can re-
flect upon these truths without feelings of anxiety and
apprehension.

Rut, while evil-disposed men have been indefatigable
in their endeOdurs to encourage vice, to vilify reli-
gion, and to bring the restraints of the law and of mo-
rality into disrepute, much, it must be confessed, has
been done to counteract their diabolical machinations.
Much more, however, remains to be done. Crime
cannot be prevented by police regulations, though these
may, and are, instrumental in leading to its detection
and punishment. Our towns are strictly watched by
livened policemen, and our rural districts are traversed
by the county constabulary; and yet thefts, assaults,
midnight assassinations, and murders in the open day,
are increasingly prevalent. The imposing processes
and awe-inspiring paraphernalia of our courts of jus-
tice, are found 'comparatively inoperative in deterring
froth these crimes. We must not trust to any of •these
things for any amelioration of the national character.
We cannot put down crime by legislation, however
salutary and necessary may be its restraints.
What, then, must be done ? Shall we invoke the
aid of the press to assist in the suppression of crime ?
Much good, no doubt, may be effected by the dis-
semination of right principles through the medium of
the press; but all its appliances will bell:mud inadequate
to meet the increasing evil. We may inundate the
land with volumes of " Useful Knowledge"—we may
spread abroad our " Penny Magazines" by millions—
we may have our public lectures on the arts and
sciences in every village—we may have our mechanics'
institutions rearing their domes, in all the pride of
architectural decoration, in every town—we may have
our public exhibitions, fraught with everything dazzling
to the eye or pleasing to the imagination, and accessible
to every class in the community—we may have our
suburban parks, our botanical gardens, and our
zoological. repertoires : but all these things will have
little or no efficacy in the repression of crime, or in the
inculcation of a higher tone of morality. We do not
declaim against any of them. They are useful in their
places, and may be rendered subsidiary to the most
ennobling ends.
The experience of ages, and facts of every day occur-
rence, justify the conclusion that it is to the spread of
sound religious principles—of true christianity—that
we must look "for a remedy against the prevalence of
crime. Mere secular instruction will be found of no
avail in arresting the torrent of immorality : religious
education, under the Divine blessing, will be found
omnipotent in staying its desolating progress.

Convinced of this, we cannot avoid once more
agitating the great questions of CHURCH EXTENSION
and NATIONAL EDUCATION on RELIGIOUS PRIN-
CIPLES. Build more churches, and there will be need
of fewer prisons. Increase the numbers of our labour-
ing clergy, and we can soon dispense with our expen-
sive police establishments. Multiply schools in which
our children shall be carefully trained " in the nurture
and admonition of the Lord," and we shall soon see
the haunt§ of vice and the nurseries of crime, one after
another, disappearing froth the land.
_ _

Having thus pointed out the bane and its antidote—
the evils which afflict our nation and remedies by which
they may be removed—we must express our cordial
hopes that the great questions of religious education
and church extension may continue to be kept promi-
nently before the eyes of the public. Let not the re-
fusal of the present Parliament to entertain these ques-
tions be any reason for giving up their agitation. If
this agitation be persevered in, it will assuredly wove
successful in the end. Magna est veritas et pnvvalebit.

We understand from good authority, that the usual
notice required by Parliament, has been given and the
plans lodged, for obtaining a bill next session, for per-
mission to make an extensive dock, on the Chesire
side of the river, at Wallasey Pool, where vessels will,
as in the case of the Harrington and Herculaneum
Docks (should the bills now in the House of Lords
pass, as they are expected to,) be exempt from dock
dues; so that, ere long, we may anticipate seeing both
shores of the Mersey lined with shipping. To such
an extent has the progress of building and location
advanced on the Cheshire side, that we cannot con-
ceive a more appropriate name for the district com-
mencing with Birkenhead, and terminating with New
Brighton, than " New Liverpool."

We have great pleasure in promoting the desire of
several of our most esteemed fellow-citizens, by direct-
ing attention to the necessity for an immediate expres-
sion of public feeling on the subject of threatened hos-
tilities with France. The grounds on which severa
gentlemen of various shades of party'opinion unite in
deploring the prospect of a rupture with our neighbours
across the Channel, are precisely those we ourselves
adopt, and are independent of the immediate question
which has roused the French nation, and will, we fear,
render war inevitable, even with so cordial and en-
lightened an advocate of the English alliance as Mon-
sieur 'Tiers. All must consider it unfortunate that it
should be during the ministry of one so devoted to
England, and so long the object of Russian hostility,
that the two powers, whose friendship might be such
a blessing to mankind, are doomed to exhaust them-
selves in Mortal struggle.
We think it most desirable that every effort, con-
sistent with our interests and honour, should be made
to avert such a calamity ; and an expression of such a
desire on the part of this great and enlightened com-
munity would, no doubt, have some effect. A requi-
sition should be instantly signed by those who value
the blessing of peace, imploring her Majesty to use
every becoming effort to maintain terms of amity with
France. The existing ministry in that country noto-
riously desire to cultivate our friendship, as their
readiness long ago to sign the commercial treaty nego-
tiated by Mr. Porter distinctly shews ; and a little
prudence and conciliation on our part will not be un-
willingly attended to. In the mean time, the ultra
press of Paris, whether republican or Carlist, halloo
us on to war ; and among the foremost are those well
known as latourets in the Russian interest.
We respectfully suggest the following as the sub-
stance of an address to her Majesty :

" That the undersigned, valuing peace as one of the great-
est of human blessings, and its preservation recognized by all
as a solemn duty, except in cases of overwhelming necessity,
view with alarm and sorrow the prospect of a termination of
that amity between France and England so long and so anx-

iously maintained.
" That without doubting the energies and resources of
Great Britain, we cannot view without uneasiness the ex-
treme want of preparation for hostilities on our part, espe-
cially considering the position of our affairs in China and
Affghanistan, with the kingdom of the Two Sicilies and the
United States.
" The undersigned also consider peace as more desirable
with France than with any other of the great powers, from
considerations of proximity, commercial and intellectual in-
tercommunication, and from respect for the place which she
holds among the civilized nations of the world.
" But we chiefly regret the possibility of collision with
France, because one result will be to render us by necessity
submissive to the encroachments of a great power, whose
hostile designs in the East we have not now to discover, who
are at this moment maturing, and which will without doubt
be carried into effect the moment that we are occupied in
contest with a great and well-prepared antagonist. We fore-
see, whatever party be successful, England or France, that
during the struggle the great prizes of the world will be seized
by a third party, and that Russia will be the only gainer by
an event so full of calamity to mankind. We perceive, that
whatever progress Russia may make in Central Asia, what-
ever her intrigues in India, and her attitude as possesSor of
the Dardanells, we shall be humble and silent witnesses of
her acts provided she abstain from joining in the European
warfare against us.
Since writing the above, we have been informed that
an address to her Majesty and a petition to the Legis-
lature, setting forth the sentiments we have expressed,

has been prepared, and will be placed this day before
our merchants for signature at the Exchange Rooms.

TILE MARQuIs OF DOURO.—The eldest son of the Duke
of Wellington, the Marquis of Douro, has been paying Liver-
pool a visit during the present week. On Friday he inspected
the model of the Battle of Waterloo, now exhibiting in the
large room over the Union News Room, Duke-street, al-
though he had seen it more than once in London. Ile sub-
sequently visited the Custom-house, Town-hall, shipping,
and other objects of attraction in the town, with all of which
he expressed his delight.
THE £5O NOTE.—On Thursday last, Wm. Chapman was
again brought up at the Borough Court; and Mr. Sawley
stated, that he had written to Mr. Whitty, inspector of the
Liverpool police, requestinT him to inquire whether any man
named Chapman lived at No. 2, Albion Mill Place, Liver-
pool. Mr. Whitty's reply was to the effect, that most care-
ful inquiry had been made, and no person named Chapman
lived in any Albion-place, in Liverpool ; but a thief named
Chapman, who came to the recent races, lodged two or three
nights in Albion-street, and left on Friday last. It appeared
that the place the prisoner professed to live in was an Albion
Mill Place, Ben Jonson-street, in the neighbourhood of
Scotland-road, a place of great resort for thieves ; and, on
the application of Mr. Sawley, the prisoner was remanded to
Monday next, and further inquiry to be made in the mean
time at Liverpool.—Manchester. Guardian.