The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-11-13 00:00:00

Tilti STATHSMAY

The Coons said by practice. It was not to be ex•
pected that a physician was to take his diploma about
in his pocket.
The Prothonotary again begged to ttottble their
Lordships. There was another claw* of persons who
were frequently allowed mdch more than any profes-
sional men--40 meant surveyors. Sometimes very
high chaos were made for them. For instance, the
late Mr. Rennie, who was summoned as a witness in
the present case : his time was of the utmost value, as
was that of others of eminence in that branch of
science. He wished to know how they were to be al-
lowed.
'l'be Cline JUSTICE —We can know no distinction
here. The time of such gentlemen as the late Mr.
Rennie must no doubt be extremely valuable to them,
but that of a poor man is equally valuable to him, and
perhaps more so ; for though the amount might not be
as great, yet the support of his family might be de-
pending on it.
Rule made absolute ; and it was further ordered,
that a moiety of the taxed costs should be paid by
each of the Insurance Offices in question.
There was another case of " Severn v. Slade," torts►
ing exactly on the same point, which was not argued►
as of course the same decision will apply to it.
The Court rose at a little before two o'clock, in
consequence of being summoned, along with some
others of the Judges, to meet the Privy Council is
the Exchequer Chamber at two o'clock.

Th OUR READERS 4411.1 b TIM PUBLIC.

[Concluded from our last.]
We have heard of some good advice given by a snidest
'man to his child just entering the world. " Get en eel rest
—lf onerrLy—ff yes ease—but err ox." Whether this
maxim bas ever occurred to Liest.-Colonel Torrens. we
cannot pretend to say; ono thing is pretty certsia—his de-
termination to try to get es. We have airedy -related
out some of the means employe) to this end ; now
set forth another of them, which. we believe, Is the last eats:.
nation from the inventive genius of the Lieut.-Colonel. We'
allude to the ROLIS AND ORDERS or TIN BEARTOLENT SO'
am or Krim., Tavel's, Correa-nous* AND lex-
Katt ans.
The Traveller newspaper was originally set on foot by
the Society of Travellers ; and for their patronage. the
Conductors of The Traveller stipulated to pay certain sass
sexually to the Traveller-Society-Fund. Subsequently to
the period at which the Lout:Colonel became possessed of
7Se Traveller, the Society began to express much dissatis-
faction. We purposely avoid giving an opinion as to the
cause. Whether it was of a pecuniary nature or not. we
do not profess to know. Be that as it may, the Traveller
Society ultimately seceded from the LieutoColonel and
The Traveller, and commenced another paper I This de-
ilbetion then must be repaired. But how 'I
The Licat.-Colonel. as he expressed himself. was resolved
to proceed " vigorously." It was quite clear, however, that
the " Howe-to-House' business. which we have already
described, would not answer. and as Mister Gardner said,
" they were the boys for getting on," It was not probable
that much time would be lost on preliminary points. The
Lieut.-Colonel thought if he could ions the Innkeepers, &c.
into a Society, like the Society of Travellers. his paper
would Sy liks a kite. Accordingly he set about it. Ile tried
his luck first with those likely to be moved by his " big
name;" the courteous condescensions of a Lieut.-Colonel
were not to be slighted ; he had only to ask a favour and it
MU granted. A little junta was made up, and meetings
managed, the Lieut.-Colonel in the chair. To give eclat
to the whole. the Freemasons' Tavern was selected as the
house of rendezvous. Here, at the various meetings. a string
of Resolutions were entered into, afterwards printed in due
form, and distributed privately to those they were intended
to allure: No public advertisements proclaimed the foun-
dation, in this the age of Charities, of another Charitable
Institution. No, the Lieutenant-Colonel was anxious to
give away with both hands.but he did not wish his right
hand to see what his left was doing. Spite of his disin-
clination to blazes forth his good works, we have been for-
tunate enough to obtain porpoise°• of a copy of his Nota-
Ulla—his " Rules and Orders." We shall here insert such
of them as bear upon the present subject : we would tran-
scribe the whole of them were they not too long. The un-
suspecting reader, on perusing the ' Rules and Orders,' is
intended to understand that the Benevolent Society had ori-
ginated with a number of Hotel, Tavern. Coffee-house, and
Innkeepers, desirous of forming some establishment for the
benefit of decayed members of the trade, end for the educa-
tion of certain children ; that they bad made up a fund. and
that they had incidentally formed an arrangement with the
Conductors of a Newspaper which would bring a certain
ands large sum annually into the stock ; now the direct con-
pan, of ell this lathe real state of the case. It is simply a
Wham of the tieut.;Cotowei tit orderaistitetwo lIMPFOSSMI
circulation to his paper. And the scheme is such as doe!
net, as far as we can discover, impose the least liability on
Ids part to furnish contributions or give power to any one
to enforce them. But then the Lieut.-Col. is an hononrable
man, and his honour will be a sufficient guarantee! In the
introduction of these Rules sad Orders, Believers are told
that "by the mere act of changing one Newspaper for an-
other, the •*I fortunate may secure themselves against
scant, and the prosperous enjoy the luxury of doing good"
(to the Limdenast-Col. we suppose). Here's an invitation ;
here's undermining with a vengeance; here's Summery and
humbug, but we shall soon see what luxury eon accrue to those
who accept the invitation. There Is another sentenee very
neatly thrown in. "As this Society is connected with an
&ening Newspaper, ft ran mut clash with, but. on the eon-
trary,may rather tend to aid that sulful and excellent
Institution, which derives its jund front the Morning Ad-
vertiser." Very pretty words certainly ; but we cannot
conceive how the circulation of the Lieut.-Col.'s paper can aid
the Morning Advertiser Institution; besides, no comparison
can exist between the two papers. The Morning Adver-
tiser is the actual property of the Publicans; they receive
their annual profits (roust, whatever these may be, after de-
ducting expenses for supporting a school. Now the Lint.
Colonel's paper does sot, nor any part of it, belong to those
who perform the " mere act of changing one Newspaper for
another" Besides wehave witnessed the fate of two papers
that were produced ander pretence of aiding the Morning
Advertiser Institution, and under elreoinstances far more
favourable than The Traveller can boast o*; yet neither
the Aurora nor the Evening Advertiser simmered the expec-
tations of the publicans in the snakiest degree. unless to
some, who, from the commencement of these parrs, only an-
ticipated mortification and loss. It will prove highly use-
full to the Publicans who are Members of the Morning Ad-
vertiser levitation, for us to refer them to the *' Rules and
Orders" by which their Institution is governed ; as they
will therein find, that by connecting theaselvesin any shape
whatever with any other Institution but that of the Morn-
ing Advertiser, they are immediately struck out of the books
as Members. and preluded from participating In any of the
emoluments of the Institution.
At the end of the introduction we have an N. B. "In
addition to Use charitable objects; of this Society, an ar-
rangement is made for protecting the Members against
. by warning them, through the Secretary, of those
IMPOSTORS and SWINDLERS who go from house to house
impogilly upon the trade." What does this mesa 1 We
cannot imagine, unless it alludes to his quondam friends
who set up an Opposition Paper. played of some of his
ewe tricks against himself ; they went from house to house
‘• tenting out" his Paper and any other that they meld ;
this the Lleut.-Colonel may think unfair, and so. la a very
gentlemanlike manner,be may designate them impostors and
swindlers. The first eleven of the " Rau and Orders"
are such as are found in all institution books. They relate
to Committees. Treasurers, alai the like. The twelfth of
On Rules and Orders provides, " That the income of the
Society shall be derived from donations sissi annual sub.
Ascriptions of Members, or other per ens dolmas qj eidisag
its benevolent objects." Now we had always thought it •
necessary accompaniment to the birth of a benevolent so-
ciety, to set forth the numerous subsceptio ts by which its
objects are expected to be accompilsbed---the names of the
Subscribers. end to ghee, at least a chance of setting it
5-going. Most charitable institutions are with dilleulty kept
up. notwithstanding the patronage of great. acid sometimes
Royal names, sad aotwithstanding heavy subscriptions to
back them. How, then, is this Gaming to be supported,
without a gimme, without a PINOT, and yet there is a reso-
le framed for appropriating the half of the income of th••