Delaware journal. [volume] (Wilmington [Del.]) 1827-1832, 1829-02-27

the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania in the case
the Chief Justice and Justice Smith dissenting.
Nat. Int.
every bet about the age, or height, or weight
wealth, or circumstances and situation of any
person, is either malicious or indecent, or indell.
cate all such bets are illegal and that no Court
ought in any case, to sustain suit on such wa
ger and this, whether the subject of the bet was
man, OF woman, or child, married or single, native
or foreign, in this country or abroad. | per-
ceive principle of law or justice, which will re-
qulre or permit the time OF the country, and the
Courts to be wasted, to crafty the malice Curl
osty, of the unthlnkng and impairment, There
are many things which politeness would not men
ton, and charity would conceal, and | would not
assist folly or malignty in making them pubc.--I
| would not a man, and will not as a Judge. |
hold no bet of any kind, about any human being, is
! recoverable in Court Of Justice.''
We copy the following anecdote from the Boston
Evening Bulletin
The Attorney General, now nearly so years of
age, and said TO be competent to the discharge
OF the arduous duties of his highly honorable station
than almost any practitioner at the bar, on account
Of his great learning and experience, as we'll as a
remarkable retention ot.meEal power, was mana
cling case in behalf Of the Commonwealth, in Mid
dlesex county, where man was indicted for goug-
ing out the eyes Of girl, because she had made an
oath that he the father of her illegtmate child.
Her brother, an intelligent lad Of nine years of age,
was the stand as government witness and
his relation Of the facts which he produl ed an
electrical effect on the whole audience. The girl
was also present in total blindness and every cir
cun,stance attending the investigation of his horri.
bic barbarity, is highly exciting The boy stated
the preliminary circumstances and then said, II
was cutting b poles round the barn, and my sis.
ter was mhkng-I heard her scream. and then
ran with pole III my hand, and as come up | saw
that he had pulled her over backwards then he
} looked over his shoulders to see who was coming,
and struck him with the pole and broke his jaw"
Why did you not repeat the blow and knock his
ID brains out ~ .'Mr Attorney" said the Judge,
you well know tina profanity court is high
t offence, punishable with Imprisonment; but in con-
, sequence OF the unusual excitement of the case, it
: will in tins instance be oyerlooked.'
. Ecclesiastical Comfy. find it announced in
the Edinburgh Evenlng Courant, that the Scottish
Episcopal Church has enacted in her general SYNOD
held tins summer ut Laurencekrk, that in future the
e Episcopal Clergy OF the Un ted States of America
shall be equally eligible with those of the Churches
i of England and ireland 10 hold any cure within the
e bounds OF her jurisdiction. This measure is wor-
i Thy of praise for the liberal and Catholic spirit Of
y which II is profound will be received we doubt
e not by the clergy Of the Episcopal Church In the
y towards them and their country.--N. Y. Post.
= A young gentleman of the City of Boston has
walked to Charleston, S. c. $50 miles in So days;
0 from Niagara Falls to Rochester, in two days;
u from Saratoga Springs to Boston, in four successive
e days from Providence TO Cambridge Street. in
Il Boston, in less than ten hours, including stops |;
e besides other to Tcunderoga Plattsburg
II \. Y. Burlington, Vermont, and Mount " ashng
J. ton, n. H. amounting, in all to tueny sen han
c drsd miles. The first of these walks is remarka
e BILE exploit
The Mercantile Advertiser furnishes the foov.
ing extract from Bristol paper OF eth December,
IN relation the unfortunate occurrence at Liberia
in which we mentioned on Monday
* "On the 9Th of No, ember last an expedition
c. preparing ny the American settlers at that place.
in to destroy French slave ship and factory at Dgby
III place about thirty miles distant, when uIng the
&c eight, the magazine in which they were making
ne cartridges, blew up, and horrible TO relate Mr. Lott
Carey the Governor, and nine Of his people,
C. destroyed
r- From the detail and PARTICULARLY of the statement
er we must, fear, consider that probable which at
fret Inn tul IL