The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-10-15 00:00:00

I.auttboth, Oct. 13._

A most extraordlsary. circumstance has just taken
place at Owston, io ihe neighbourhood of
rough.. A young girl, between fourteen and fifteen sears.
of eget. of the name of Jane [loud, was seat by brr .
mastecon,Thsrsday or.rning the 4th. shout 4:oeclock,
with.* note for a person, at Morton, three or font miles
distant. :Theis supposed to have been met on Stock-
with-bridge, shunt six jiclock, bat she is not known to
have crossed any of the ferries • A dog which went
with her, returned home about right o'clock the smile
foorsiog,. was dressed is a brown .cotton asuff
fowls, silk spencer, yellow cotton handkerchief.. awl
speckled strucheattet. V arloes conjectures have been:
made. be pe citcnineteneebas yet.ariset to' elacida‘e
list fate. itotwithotanding the most eac!rein ride!qpirs:
tocit alleged rgehtsea-(gtoreferel Nate.)

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• LONDON:
' MONDAY ZTtltllif, OCTOStIt 15, 1921. ►

• STOCK EXCILiNGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
.Tansorrow being Settling Day at the Stock
elaitigti,'‘be principal business transacting this morn-
ing is among the different parties making up their Ac-
counts. Consols opened at 771 78 fur this day and
Orrow.

Aeeording to the anticipations of some of the Watch
journalists, the roam of 'the *tendon now going on,,
will ikei(arenrable, to the liberals; bat la all thi results
ere.have bees able to sec, we perceive palpable proof of
the pernicious effects of narrowing the basis of poplar
suffrage, and of cheating the people of their rights by'
double election. By that mode, the elections in
France are, in fact, as indeed was intended by its
contrivers, almost rendered a nullity. Instead of
ten or twenty thousand electors, we find only between
four. and live hundred exercising the right of choos-
4ag a representative. Accordingly the presidents of
.Electoral Colleges, appointed by the King, have been
almost invariably chosen, or the member who has
gone out by rotation, has been re-elected. The King
might as well appoint them at once ; and they would
be as mach the representatives of the people of France
es they are now. It is not, we believe, yet made
li-
helloes in this country, to Gad fault with the sys-
tem of snia-representation in Prance. It is a
boon, which, the French nation, together with
many other inappreciable advantages and enjoy-'
ments, ewes to the deemerolent and disiaterealed exer-
tion. of the favourers of legitimacy.—They, 40e ma-
naged these things better in Portugal. There. direct
election, and suffrage. universal, bare laid a firm basis
of permanent prosperity, and progressive melioration,
which nothing but a successful inroad of the barbs-
rimer %film Holy Alliance 'can destroy. This was a
gieut improvement even on the Spanish Cementation.
The Electoral Chambers—electors to choose electors--
if not seasonably abandoned, will ruin France, as the
rotten borough system has ruined England.

That a house divided against itaskosust so.;
is a common saying and a common teeth, yet the itn•
becility of ministers considers it an act of supreme
policy to divide the people, that they may more easily
manage them, and retain the reins of power in itself:
own hands. They first tax '
thc country to provide them
with the means to rule ; they next keep up a standing
army, which is frequently employed againgst those who
partisan; they then lay oat the people's money on
the base hirelings of the press, wins, in conjh fiction with
their employers, detract, villify, awl abnes•every man
oho oppose their will, either civil or politically. They
allure at the same time, the ministers of the gospel to,
neglect the care of soils and follow their dictates °fin-
risprodence, and unfortunately find them too apt agents
in the system of coercion and local tyranny, who seek
preferment by abase of power. Instead of the mild,
the forgiving doctrine of their Redeemer, the dictum
of rule and expectation of profit are their guides. In-
stead of a patient and sober investigation of causes I
and effects, they at once rash into the current of
judicial despotism, and become bated, instead of re-
ceiving that homage and respect justly due to a
divine, whose meekness and love fur his neighbours,
chew a practical lesson that niust be followed, and
whose salutary Caution and persevering watchfulness
over his flock. . His great and christian•like attention
to their interests, temporal as well as spiritual, renders
him their heavenly guide instead of their earthly tor-
mentor ; but that is not the road to promotion—the
Ministers hold the ~mod gifts of this world—the
speopi* on their journey to another may take care of
'themselves. The conduct of the clergy has been the
subject of severe animadversion in the House of Par•.
liament and in the Courts of Law. A parson, whose
flagrant Alm of power, Isis imprisonment and coer-
cive cruelty to a respectable farmer in Hertfordshire,
subjected this said parson to an action at law, where
he was cast in damages. yet this Holy Limb of promo,
dor considered his conduct the most effectual means
to raise him from an tumble curacy. The parson
Northampton, who visited his servant woman, *nit,
thought to crush her hopes of getting an honest live;
Miami, was also cast in damages. And, on a recent oc-
casion, a Parson in Lancashire was criminally prose?.
silted and convicted for a most atrocious and fiithr
"libel in a sermon preached from the pnipit of his 4•u:
iacy.. which he was not satisfied with preaching. but
had it printed sod pus sashed f—insr, what adds. to the'
infamy, the object of his malevolence. was a acoman„
, and that woman was the Queennf England., . But this
it appears. by the recut& of tier 'Crovii: Was not hil
first eonviction. IA the yi/gr °rissk 1, IlMt
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herd of she shristian flock was branglk.. up for 11)4
sod eenteticed to slwepeothe imprisoonseat
he Klefslietteh fur sOothet atrocious libel
biliont (ilea; airticiawiy

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