The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-12-29 00:00:00

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~• • .riltrg if Pelt!' Sesaioas,• Maeroons. •
.7rhstatterstion of the Magiittates of this Court vrailatly
Nigro/mei bv the' investigation'of a curions case of ,Utlxbd
eleseeiption..bsiera.corapaaad, partly involving the rights
of the feathered choir, sod partly' those of the animal
bepee et implant,. thiAgi human and • divine. civil and
ecclesiastical.
The Curate of a &risk to the 'west of the to ti Ma-
crown, extended his .pastoral. care to a 'fitielt Of geese,
which, like toe many Christians, were never " filled with
good things," until. 64' riitsited them as a viaticums on
their (lidding this stiblomirr. scene, and never attended
their master's lectures on mtues-Miefiere'uni, until, having
passed the. purgatorial fire of hii'llitchen, they arrived at
the paradise of his table, " from whose bourns no traveller
returned." Thus "drooping, woeful. wan, like geese.
forlorn," no wonder they stray'd, as stray they did, ihto
the haggard of the Parish Clerk, and there busily employed
themselves In breaking the eighth cumin iridescent.* •
The Clerk, who bad hoarded these fruits of the earth
that in due time he might enjoy them, when he discovered
the intruders, flew, infiadined with holy zeal. anti scattered
them, loud cackling, over the plain.
The caeklime of the sacred geese broke the morning
slumbers of the sentinel of the Church (the Curate) in
time to repel this rude invasion of the Gall of the Clerk,
and, as a punishment for his sacrilege, the offending; Clerk
was pat under a sertence of interdict. a 6 aqua et 474,
which was enforced in the following manner
An ancient passage trade from the Clerk's hcrase,throngla
the Olebe, to the river, through "which Clerks of yore were
wont to pass, with Inca, tabs, sad soforth, for water. Here,'
in a noon perdue, about the hour of washing the pmatoes
for dinner, armed With an axe, " The' ltev. Champion
'toad." Anon,a damsel of the Clerk's household' comes
gaily singing down the lane, with a tub on her bead, "nor
feared an ambush for she knew no v ode but soon:horitr
struck at the unosal apparition of the Church militant,
*4 with huge two handed sway," brandishing his bettlesze
in the narrow pass, she dropped her tub, arid fled "Air
safely and for gut cone."
'rho Clerk next called his aged mother, and• sent her
with another tub down the fatal passage—peradventure,
said be, her grey hairs will protect her—but no, on the
same -spot was posted the Rev. Hero, 'shit his terrific
weapon, and the old crone retreated as fast as her limbs,
paliCed with age and Gar, permitted.
Filially, the Clerk himself attempted the adventurer, bat
with no better success, for his vigilant foe, like the Cro•
eodi!e of the Nile, (hut thapais hands were not in his
;stitches pock-ts,) scared hisrfrom all avcess to the limpid
Mt/4m; with his brandished axe.
• This cruelly tantalised, the poor Clerk, for the ensuing
Holiday, sang the stave," As pins the heart for cooling
streasna;" but/when his Reverence cried,Utni bless yon," he
'Could* not say Amen—Amen stuck in his throat,'! so
patched *was it from his forced abstinence.
Tht Magistrates heard the Clerk's tale, and commise-
rated his sufferings—bat to avoid farther litigation, they
recommended the Curate to keep his flock, as well geese as
others, froM straying,and snffer the Clerk,though no Dives,
to cool his torign- as heretofore. The Curate bowed submi•.
shoo to thoCnart, and the Clerk returned homewards, sing--
log, "0 he joyfol.'!
• TheebehtheUnidtandietent in the Protestant arrangement
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ofthe
Decaiogne—but the seventh according to the decision
adopted by 4 htf Cs thoßst Church.
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An entratirdlasity case his recently occurred in the visrishof
Owennap. A young girl who worked at one of the mines was
'discovered to be pregnaut, and being brought by the Over-
seers before a Magistrate, lo order *o dilate her expezted off-
sprier, to the am
osistworot iif ell present- she swore -tharsvf-
esker yam* girl with whom she was known to be in habits of
alootaintimacy. was the father. As she persisted iu this state-
meet. sizaacensed nondescript was brought before his Worship
when, on.invesiigation, the following facts were elicited: —The
Mother of the offender, fJr reasons which we have not learned,
contrived to pass a male infant of which she was delivered,
iipon her acquaintance is a female. At an early age the chill
went to work as a ball girl at one of the mines ; here the dis-
tinged youth formed so ireimacy with the daughter of another
Miser; tit. y worked together, end occasionally. as frienth,
'sleptlegether, at Vie house of the latter; the consequence has
boodtdready stated. The lad has put oa garments suitid to
Ids tgrlp‘ tad under sit the circa-aslant:es of the case, the over-
Nereid's', not thought proper to act with severity towards
ihres..:-(Brest Britee.)
• The Leinster Journal says, an investigation into the
conduct of the Police on the last Pair night at Freshford,
was held yesterday at that place, but the result has not yet
reached us. We really do not understand this way of
"administering justice in Ireland." Had Bayly wantonly
, stabbed Dickson, one friend, Mr. St. (hero would have
instantly, on the complaint being made to him, sent the
culprit off to the Comity (hot, on a capital charge under
LordEllenboroogli's Act. Why, then, is thePoliceSergeant
suffered to go at large Who is charged with wantonly
stabbing a young man in his mother's house? Is them
one law far the people, and another for the police?
Verily, there is oot.although the recent cases of Sergeants
Veldts and Dickson, and others that we could name,
cannot fail to leave that i:npreasion on the minds of the
uninformed. The law says justice shall be administered
equally and impartially to all. But there are Magistrates
who set this legal maxim at naught. To such conduct,
the unlawful acts of the people may generally be traced.
It most inevitably create and narture disaffection among;
the ignorant. Magistrates who know their duty, who really;
love their country, and wish to see it tranquil and prosperous
will also love justice, and administer it equally, without ,
fear, favour, or aff-ction. Were this the universal character
of our Magistracy, Ireland would soon become morally, as
well as physically, a happy. land."
The well known fable of the Bull its the China chop,'
was nearly changed into a reality on Wednesday, for Mr.
Widdowson, of Hucknall, having tome I a cow out of a
stable in the Spread Esgle Inn yard, it rushed oot of the
back gates into Sheep-lane, and crossing the road, burst
open the shop door of Mr. S. Ingar, dealer in glass and
earthenware, with such violence, as to shatter the door,
and leave evident marks of the force which had been used.
1 The enraged animal went into the shop, breaking the pots
and glasses which stood in its way, and rorniug roots I,
wont behind the counter, where it was too narrow for it
1 to turn, and when it thus found its progress checked, it
street.A
evinced a dispositionman
leaned
t o leapover, and
n throngsd by scratching
window
thi
the
into
beast,he
succeeded in soothing it, while sous? others were busily
employed in removing. the glass and other brittle articles
out of the way. Various devices were thought of to
remove the unwelcome guest, a rope was put roan I its
neck, but it rues found impos•ilile to get it back th• way
it came, an I at length it leaped over the counter, aid metre
its escape, after heing a prisoner in the ihop nearly an
hour and a half! The damage done, is estimated at
bower's 20/. and 301.--4Nottinghaat Review) •
11:10111RA.-1.4111IND AND L4NOAN.—Oh Thursday nest tie
, stakes of six hundred sovereigns will he made good between
the biekars of Spring, and Langan, preparatory to the great
hunts bet awe them on the 7th January, WU miles distaut from
the metropolis.
The Stockport Paper says:—" We hare received • letter
from our spurting correspondent at Bristol, who snores us,
that Bill Neste Intends to challenge the victor in 'the great fight
which is to take place on tns 7th of January.—livitiog there 5
nada to 4 on Spring.
Aav Bet.tsco AN o O'NeILE —To morrow, within 20 miles
Of London, the above Pogillats west to decide who is tne best
duo, for SOL aside.-7 to 4is the c arent bett.ng.
According to accounts from Turin. divest the title inst. the
King Victor Enanuel was in aseery tow state. aczording to
the description given of his heath is the but:etins tit the itith
Kid 17th, he was macs um. On the tatter day.
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GENRlaje.iit.C.:Olis 'AC iii-c it Ris rgsititii
. AND 8U12124.6! • • •J. • .2.
hiring TIC CITY 'Or LONDPN AND DILLILOD Ve49411.119494.99N
etc. 10, 1622..1td Rec. 17, 16214. .:,.
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••• I •Christeeed in the 97 Parishes within the if4t. 111611i.11.•
• Chriatensil ,in the 17 Perishes wltbdit ibi Wa115,..6,- 142.
'Buried, SAVO. :•I: . • , ' ' * ' ' '.. ' ..
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Christened in the ,23 Out Parlabesln Iliddletitut laid flarrey,
, 17.092,- Denied, 19,797. ; • • , . ••:• ••;:. ti i. i
;_,Pristened in ibe JO Parishes la the City • ail Liberties of
Wiictrujneter, 4,o93.—Ouried. 4,709. , • :, -„- • : •••--
' Jamie! this year, 20,279.- .• • . . .'- ,; .. ..1 ,
• - Asvai.2ll4.;
Bitten by'S mad dog 1 Merder'ed A.,....,. I
Broken Limbs ' il'Onetlaid • .4plT!•;pl' I
Baffin
Drowned 118 Scalded " " 1.:..... 9
Excassive Drirtking....i 6 Smothered........: " : 2
spesited* .......• I 'Starved .. . .............. 1
Pound Daad.....•
F'ractured ............ 1. Infields . „. ••* .5.94
Killed by Fells, sod mend . . •' _. • • 1 •:. -!--.
other Accidents. 61 . . Total 0(4121416e5. art
Killed by fighting 2'
•• - cwittsranan.'
Males 18.11431 in all „„61,0
Females 111,761; _ _ ' '-

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Males Kaiiiiinali 20,697
Femaleslo,l32
- 6606 •

Whereof hays died—Under two years of age, -—; betwient
two sod Are, 1937; five and tett. 767; ten sad Meaty, Vs*: ;
tel enty and thirty, 1573.; thirty end forty, 1761; forty and Mt s.
le
1 • fifty and sixty, ISM; sixty end seventy. 1871; seventy
le eighty, ISM; eighty non ninety. 880; ninettpuita.liseadord,
.106; a,huntired,4; a hundred and two, 1; a hundred aid se.
Wo I. an a hundred and nine, I.
4* d hd i I
• • .
, • !Weaved In the burials this year, 1719.
• There have been cat cuted within the Rills of Mortality,
Set; erly 14 have been reported es each. . ° •-• •
By the Olasfour Mortality Bill, it appears - that the in-
crease of burials last year was no less than 937. As the
enbl.3 are made out ander Mr. Cleland's inspection, the'. e
„man he nn doubt of their accuracy; bat the fact itsrlf is itir-
poising. There way have been an Increase in the populaVit
last leer, but certainly there was nose at all cortespondidg
tss the increase of deaths, nor was there any %Int of 0,.
ilistrnce. It is probably to be ascribed to the protractr t
winter and ung.nial summer of last year, for the finelt
weather is al way. the most healtlty.—(Glargoto Herald)
Roue.—Tbe Notizie del Gitano, a Roman paper, pub.
lisherl a table of the population of Rome, by which it app are
that that capital. which for a long titre was in a state of
decline, is now participating in the advance of population
which is taking place in the greater part of Europe. • At
Easter, 1823, Koine had 136,569 inhabitants ; • in 1814, it
was only 120,505, It is only by the influx of strangers,
hoirever, tnat Rome Increases ;• for the numbrr of death%
continues, since 1817. to • d that of the births. 11-t
year there were 5,480 deaths, and only 4,365 baptisms,
The deaths are to the population as 1 to 24 4-sths ; the
births as 1 to 31 1.511.. Rome con•ains 27 Bishops. 1,395
Priests, 1,565;510nks and Friars, 1,370 Nuns;• AOO Sdlhi•
wrists. ,
The camber of pieces of cloth exported in 1816, rils
• 637.045
Do. 1822. 424.3t3

Do.t

Pieces , 242,632

MARKETS AND FAIRS. •
[AWE§ CORN MAURr, SATURDAY Dec. 20. 1523.
Red Wheat (nets) 21 12s. Od.; Barley (new) 11. 7s,
; oats. (u:w) ti. Id. to 11. 2s ; Beans, 1/..13s 61.;
Pes‘,.ll. 14s.
TUESDAY. Dec. 43 —White wheat (new) from V. 16*. to
31. ; mixed snit. (ntlie),l2/. 16s ; red ditto, 2/. 12s. to 21.
16.. barley, IL. 13i,Igrsqnarter.
Chichester Martiet; ou Wednesday, was very thinly sup.
plied with stock, and butchers not being numerons,
great part of the stuck was driven env? unsold. 'f he buyers
at the Corn Market, were numerous, and a greal deal of
Anilines. was transacted', at little alteration in prices.
The Inspector's Bettor's waiwliest 364. 31; barley, 23, ;
oats, 21s. lid.; !Pam., 425.
Ct. Inc, Exxis, Dec. 22.1" tie Fair of Newinarlt.t,
ou Ssturday, dampe I the spirits of the farmers,
prices haring very considerably reduced below those of
Six Mile llritlge. Some few purchases were effected, hnd
no strangers appeared.
KILkeNNY, o.tc. 24 —The fair of Bennett's Btidr,
on Monday, was.well stockNl, and prices, in geeeral, were
high. The pig fair was abundantly supplied.• end mach
business was done in this description of peek. which
ussintained a high valise. The horse fair exhibited. a• .
very large, but very miserable assortment, and sales were
nutueroas.

CORN EICRANOIC, MONDAY, Use. 29.—Tbe arrival% of
all kinds of grain 1 Ist week, wete considerable. Tnia
morning there is a good supply of Wheat from Essex and
Ken', with madera.e quantities of Barley, Beans, an
Pease; but the:wind being boisterous and contrarys:Atiere is
very little corn in from other parts. There has bron but
little inclination on the part of the millers to purchase:
Wheat to-d w and as the price of Flour does not advance,
the Wheat Trade is therefore very dull, and hardly sea'n.•
tains the quotations of this day se °night. Barley ,has sot 1.
freely on rather better terms than this day week. ; Lltra,:s
and tirey Pease are also rather dearer: White Pease far.
grinding have adeanzed 2s. to ds. per qr.; and such'as
will boil well are rather higher. Although there are not.
many (his for sale. yet the demand is only limited to-UK;
still rather better prices are obtained for the few petrel*
that have found buyers. Clover seed continues to adiatise,
In price, and rape.seed is also dearer.
SMiTNI'ILLD MARKET. DEC. ME—,Tbere was k short
Market this morning both in Sheep and Oxen; but still.'a
sufficiency for thedemand, as the hatcher, did not pdrchsse •
freely owing to the wet weather, and to their having that
of their Christmas sto.:k on hand. The price may be
quoted much the same as last Markuet Dsy.
Diernesetso Cass.--(Frons the Leeds .11crcory.)—At
the petit sessions at linareshnoagh, held on Wednesday
list, considerable sympathy was exited in the cue of a
oor woman uamedSusannah Bruce. It appeared th it her hoe.
hand,a weaver belonging to the towoshsp offineeesborovh., .
hail been in search of work at Nottinglialt, but no: meet-
ing with employment in that place, she left him with tie
intection of returning to her friewls at !icarboroutls. On:
her Arrival at Leeds, she lotto,' her small stock of money ,
quite exhausted. and she was.Ohliged to walk to linareu.
borough on Sunday last, a distance of 19 miles, withaut
food. Having no ether resource, the applied-tothe av•r-
seer of that place for reliefs irgorrojeir him that sire had
had nothing but water to asbAists•upan for nearly two days:
notwithstanding.thWeppeal tothis humanity, he refaseal
to assist her, unless she Foliaged him an order from a
Magistrate. Being six months advanced in pregnancy,
and unable to proceed any further, she applied to the
I master of the workhouse, begging that he would al!ow tier
to remain there for the night, bat isO declined this very
reasonable regara, and she was obliged to attempt to eo
us for as J. Williamson's, E.q,of liampstli waite. a distance .
of seven miles, lie being the nearest
.Magistrate. On Der
reaching Harrogate, about seven o'clock in the eveo:ne, •
Idle was so much exhausted.that she fell upon the gruind
in a state of insecsibility, near to the house of Mr. Wric fis
and probably have perished there unobserve, bad not :he
moon enabled a person who wu pas..ing to discover ter "
situation. By the kitnlnessof Mr. Wright she wit re. I
moved into his house. and by Vie care of his family, re-
stored to abimetion On the follow-leg day a sufa.:ont
IMO was charitably:lot/scribed to cuevey her hone
the overseers or Harrogate, much to Code ere iit,deteritan,d
to briny the case before the Magistrates, by whom the o. a-
duct of the pariill'sbdicerilf Kniaresboruogh was severely
and deservedly centufed.

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