The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-12-11 00:00:00

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TO THE EDITOR OCHE STATESMAN.

London, Dec. 9, 1829.
sia—The derision which came from the Holy Bro.
ti,,,horol, lately assembled at Verona, clearly shows os,
that they had not " the blessed comforts of religion" in
their minds. For that decision has a tendency to cause
a most bloody civil war in Spain ; aad to destroy its
credit abroad In anv country, where the blessed com-
forts hare been liberally hest. wed by one class, and so
teach cherished by another, we may expect a great
woggle. before both parties can be convinced that
the intended chaoge is for their good. Think of the
election at Coventry, when Mr. Cobbett was a candidate.
This struggle was nearly over in Spain, when the Holy
Brotherhood sent out their mandate to rekindle the
Lane! And which, if they proceed, will not be easily
ettingeished. I am, sir,
Your obedient servant,

S. H.

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PUBLICATION OF PROCEEDINGS IN COURTS
OF JUDICATURE.
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In the cootie of the proceedings yesterday in the
" Portsmouth Case," the Lord Chancellor is stated to
have expressed his opinion on the above subject in the
following terms;-1 understated I have been represented
to have said, that publication. may be legally. made of
part of the; proceedings before they are finished. I
speak in the presence of the Bar, who know that I have
repeatedly from this place said, that when I first entered
Westminster Hall, such a publication was understood Ity
evert man who walked that Hall to be directly contrary
to law. I have also, I think, to the knowledge of every
Goistlesua who has 'needed this Bar for some time,
said, ihat whenever that matter was brought before on,
il.elseedd net shrink from doing my duty, and giving my
I *Ptak* epos It; and the coarse that I should probablf
take, if sub a case came before me, would he this:—As
the Courts of Law have suffered such a system of publi-
vagina to the extent to which they have coffered'
It. I should feel it to be my duty, lest I should lie
1 eating erroneously, to request the opinion and the
I attendance of the Judges of some of the Courts.
la order that the question might be settled ellel.
1 for all. I eau very readily say this, that if such an aps,
pikation was made, supposing the law to he arginall ,
the practice as it now prevails. that a Court ought to us
lelllrgreat care before it considered that which has bun
',Wig tolerated assa offence against the Ceertit ougle,
it all oreetems give notice that it would estimate it ea an
jllorser. lea latices* at the Old Dailey, 1 underellost
brie Court did give seek • 'ode,. Ido not say that
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the notice to ameourry s because unless the
igdssir was . rokibited was against the law, the nothio,
' hi not operate as a legal prohibition of it ; hat that
It was fit dna votive should be given, in order that whit
had bias suffered so long should not he visited as as at-.
feats without an intimation given that it would be so
treated. I remember perfectly well too (as if it was but
yesterday). that en attorney of very great eminent* gave
notice to all the public Whew:, that if they published
any thing that passed before them on the occasion or
a man who wu afterwards to be tried for the libel and
so ow, he would file an information against any one of
isibm—What has altered the law, if it be law, I do not
know; bat I desire to have it understood—if any per-
son represents of me that I have neither admitted its It-
gality, nor admitted its illegality ; but whenever the
matter is properly. InongLt before me, I will, in Jedg-
ment, give an opinion which I ;blot is due betwesa the
public and the persons unsplainiog.
smeassainhellentenn .
DISINTERRINH THE DEAD.
—iseihr---
We publish the two followleg paragraphs merely by
way of fillip to the zeal of the College of Samson".
We hope speedily to hear that this learned corporation
has come to an unanimous resolutioa that every member
shall and will direct, by his last will and testament, that
his body shall be given to his surviving colleagues for
the benefit of anatomical science —(Morally Paper.)
The revolting practice of disinterring dead bodies has
been detected at Stirling, for which cries throe persons
are in custody tbero.--(Caledonino Alsrewsg.)
The robbers of the manaioas of the dead seem to be
carrying on theitiluaballowed purposes with more &otio-
sity the. ever. On Wednesday night, Wore the polies
too ea their stations, a party of those mitormate came
he east side of the Hartshorn Chnrch-yard, carrying
&warms, sad were aseeeding the wall wises .they were
fortmately diechvered triatLarts2 who wee
,ggegA,

WRlerrinnworer,
to remain and exchange 'equal shots with the persona
watching, sad it was *illy in consequence of the crowd
assembled on hearing the report of fire eras, that the,
compelled to relinquish their designs; and wake a
precipitate retreat. it is reported seeld .dies were
wonaded.—(Gleagow Chronicle.) • • • •

It is generally reported is the city, that** thins en,
der the orders of Capt. Owen have a different deeded.
lion than the West ladle*.
A vessel from Genoa brings iat-Iligence that, throe-
weeks sinew, a violent storm arose 'at that place. while
did damage to the Lazaretto and the town to the amount
of 6,000,110(1 francs
A Declaration was filed le one of the Copts yesterday, by
a 1t.,. Gentleman. e. a Gentleman Attorney, on a charge of
14rien.Con.—(Guisfils livening Peat.)
EDINBURG, Dec. 6. —We uoderstand that the Sew
lineshotarket, lately occupied as a Fishonarket, is t
opened to-morrow. gje.
'lt gives as pleasure to learn, that in the neighlm f-
log tows, of Haddington, an lestitntios has been form-
ed ow the same principles, and under the same name as
the School of Arts, in this city. In commenced lag
winter. with lectures on geometry, electricity, and nem
chalice. On its vo-opeaing this Season, the Maslow
trates of the burgh handsomely voted to the Institution'
the sum of ten pounds ten shillings for the purchase of
apparatus.
We understand that the Father of the unhappy youth
Brown, whose trial was reported in our last, died sail-
, denly that day two weeks. Upon hearing that his son
bad received his Indictment, be appeared in the deepest
distress of mind. He was a copper-plate printer, and
had born in the employ of Messrs. Thompson and Co.
Old Fishmarket Close, for nine years past, and on his
way from his toaster's, with the intention of going slung
with his wife to prison, to see their sun, he dropped
down on the street, and expired ! The widow is left
with no les. than ten young Children, of which the one
low in liridewell, fifteen years of age, is the eldest.—
(Ediaburg Star.)
Some weeks ago, an interesting Collection of Rowe
Antiquities was presented to the Society of Antirpiorianed
of this town, by Geo. Gibson, Esq. of Iteedsmoathr
which were found last June on the celebrated station of
Housesteads (the Roman Borcovicns) of which thatgem,
tteman is the proprietor. They were dug op in what 4.1
supposed to have been a Temple of Mithras, originally.,
I a Persian Deity, whom the Romans adopted and
shipped about the second century, and consist of seat
inscribed altars—one very valuable, as conveying t
precise date of its erection, A. D. ,232, and some very
curious bas reliefs, illustrative of the Mithraic
Nothing of the kind had hitherto been discovered Is
this country. At the- monthly Meeting of the Socials
on Wednesday evening last, an interesting p.-
per upon these rare and precious remains of Itoosan
times in Britain, was read by !the Rev. John Hodgman,
Secretary. Mr. Gibson's liberal example has been
promptly followed by the Rev. Henry Wastell, of New-
brough, who ha• this week further enriched the Soci-
ety's Collection by adding to it several valuable articles
of Antiquity, found on his Estate joining the Roman
Wall, consisting of some inscribed tablets and scalp-
tures.—(Newesatle Courant.)
Lately was married, at Arnold, Notts, Mr. Matthew
Shelton, aged 17, to Miss Aone Handley, aged 53 This
is the brat couple that hare walla their appearance it
the hymeneal altar in that parish since the paining of
the Marriage Act. The bridegroom was mania wink,
the consent of his parents, and became alts'Apal, father,
and grandfather, all in ace day 1 —(1/ r Ally.l
CORN EXCHANGE, TWELVB O'CLOCIL—MB fresh ar•
rivals since Monday are chiefly confined to several ves-
sels with oats from the North. Prime wheat folly tu 'in-
tim Monday's prices. Barley also sells well. Beans
and pease are unaltered. an 4 there is a dull sale for oats,
at the prices last quoted.—F.nglish Wheat. 4,700 ; Bar-
t/A:100 ; Oats, 14,600; Irish, 130; Flour, 5,100.

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