object of the original shareholders in such companies was to put money into their own pockets at little risk to themselves; and he went into various details to show that this Pasco Mine could not be worked with advantage, that there was no proper title to it, and that the House ought to interfere, and prevent individuals from being ruined by such speculations. in which the writer denies some of the statements made by Mr. Buxton respecting the Pasco Mine Company.-Mr. BUXTON said, he had made those statements on the authority of persons of great respectability. ALDERNEY MILK COMPANY. Sir F. BUXTON observed, that the celebrated traveller Humboldt had described these mines as being very productive, and his observation had recently been confirmed by the son of Sir R. Wilson and others; that the Company had been grossly calumniated by a person named Dubois,-afitable many of the present speculations, the exertions of individual traders man who had avowed himself the author of various hostile statements, and had even offered to contradict all he had uttered against the Company, if they would present him with 10 shares in it! Mr. H. GURNEY and Mr. T. WILSON spoke in favour of the bill. Sir F. BURDETT said that the fact that persons were first led to enter into this company by being told that they would only be liable to the amount of their shares, and that they were afterwards informed that their responsibility would extend to the whole of their fortunes, was a sufficient reason to induce the house to throw out this bill. It appeared to him, that of all the projects which he had ever heard or read of, this scheme most deserved the name of a bubble. Mr. BARING said it was deplorable to witness the gambling mania which at present prevailed; but he saw no difference between the gambling of the nobleman in the hells of St. James's-street, and the gambling of the merchant on the Royal Exchange, except that the latter kept earlier hours and more respectable company than the former (Hear.) The evil was certainly one which deserved to be checked, though he hardly knew how the check could be applied. The remedy would be worse than the disease, if, in putting a stop to this evil, they put a stop to the spirit of enterprise. He believed that all the mining speculations would turn out delusions, but he saw nothing more objectionable in this bill than in others which had been passed. On the first day of the session, a person of great influence in the Cabinet had given notice that he would apply his mind to the invention of a remedy for this evil; but he was afraid that the remedy would be matter of doubt with the personage to whom he alluded, until the disease had either carried off the patient, or had been cured by the effort of nature. Mr. CALCRAFT opposed the bill, and condemned all such speculating companies. Mr. ELLICE would not oppose the bill, but he condemned the spirit of gambling that was now abroad. There might, he said, be great prizes in the lottery which was thus opened, but none sufficiently great to compensate for the credulity of the public. The bill was then read a second time, as Mr. Hobhouse did not press for a division. Thursday, March 17. A petition was presented from the Cowkeepers of the Metropolis against the Alderney Milk Company; when a conversation arose, and some Members expressed a wish that a law should be introduced to regulate Joint Stock Companies. Mr. HUSKISSON said, however wild and uaprowould in the end prevail over them, and that when there was nothing illegal in the plans of such Companies, the House ought not to interfere. -Mr. Aldermau BRIDGES testified, that the Alderney Milk Company had already done much good by supplying the town with cheap aud pure milk. SUPPLY-EAST INDIA SUGAR. In a Committee of Supply, various sums were voted for the service of Ireland, and oy the third reading of the Annual Duties bill, Mr. SYKES called upon Ministers to reduce the grievous and partial tax upon East India Sugar, which gave a monopoly to the Slave-owners of the West, at a heavy expense to the people of England.-The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER declined entering on a question of so much difficulty and delicacy!-The bill was then read a third time and passed. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTES. W. Thornhill, York-place, New-road, livery-stable-keeper. J. Jackson, Dover, tailor. S.-S. Forsaith, Hackney, haberdasher. Mr. CREEVEY presented a petition against the Manchester and Liver- E. E. L. Blood and T. Hunter, Aldersgate-street, furnishing-ironmongers. pool Railway bill. The petitioners, he said, were apprehensive of consiT. Croston, sen. and T. Croston, jun. Liverpool, ship-chandlers. derable injury to their property by the passing of those loco-motive engines, which he might more aptly denominate, infernal machines(a laugh)-through their farms, and in some instances, through their very yards. The petitioners further objected to this bill on the ground of its being a mere job, carried on by a few speculators to put money in their own pockets, and of no public utility-Ordered to lie on the table. Mr. F. BUXTON, alluding to the remarks he had made respecting the conduct of a Mr. Dubois, said there were two persons in the City of that name-one a most respectable man, Mr. Wm. Dubois; but his observations applied only to Mr. James Dubois. Mr. S. RICE brought in a bill for establishing Manufactories and introducing Joint Stock Companies in Ireland.—Read a first time. Mr. PEEL presented a petition against the Catholic Claims from the University of Oxford, as any further concession would endanger the Constitution in which opinion, Mr. P. said, he fully concurred. (Hear, hear!)-The petition was ordered to be printed. Mr. HOLCROFT presented a petition from certain cotton-spinners of Manchester, praying for a reduction of the hours of labour. CLERICAL OFFICE-HOLDers. Mr. HUME moved for returns of the names of all Persons in Holy Orders of the Church of England, holding Places in Boroughs and Corporations, with a specific statement whether any such held Benefices, and the names of such Benefices. The Hon. Member prefaced his motion with a few observations on the impropriety and injury flowing from the connection of civil duties and political feelings with the sacred office of a Christian Minister. The motion being put, Dr. PHILLIMORE opposed, and Mr. J. SMITH supported it. Mr. PEEL objected to the motion, observing, that while he found that Clergymen were not disqualified by law from filling such situations, he should, without entering into the consideration whether such appointment of clerical persons to fill corporate situations were judicions, withhold his acquiescence in the motion, or give his implied consent by agreeing to the returns, that the privilege, if such it might be denominated, should be taken from clergymen under such circumstances. After some remarke Federers, the House was proceeding to a division, when it was found that there were not 40 Members present, and consequently an adjournment the H. Shanley, Little Argyll-street, wine-merchant. T. Farley, Hereford-place, Commercial-road, haberdasher. G. Gardiner, Paddington, brick-maker. THE FUNDS.-The English market continues to remain steady, with little fluctuation worth describing. Foreign Stocks have for these few days past been slightly improving, especially Colombian Bonds and Mexican Scrip; Greek Scrip is also somewhat better. The New Pearl and Coral Companies are the most active speculations of the moment, the premium fluctuating between 6 and 8 per cent. Many of the new schemes, however, seem to excite very little attention, although new Companies are every day coming forward; it looks, indeed, as if the fever height of delusion was subsiding. Latest quotations:-Consols, 93 Reduced, shut 34 per Cents. Reduced, shut Ditto Scrip, 1825, 3 dis. New 4 per Cents, 1057 106 STOCKS YESTERDAY. COURIER versus BULL-John Bull expresses his pious indignation, that the reduction of the taxes of the people of England is to be postponed on account of the war in India.-If the writer of this paragraph had ever doubled the Cape, he might probably have learnt that the whole expense of troops serving in India, is defrayed exclusively from the revenues of that country; and that the people of England will not even be called upon to make good the deficiencies of any Public Accountant who may Mr. Hos or read lelley he had rented from Mr. James Dubois, there embezzle the public funds!-Courier. An ENEMY TO OPPRESSION, the Letter respecting HARRIETIE WILSON, a Natice of the "Odes and Addresses to Great People," and another of v killed, and Assistant-Collectors Messrs. STEVENSON and ELLIOT, taken prisoners, after being severely wounded." Works of FINE ART, will appear next week. THE EXAMINER. LONDON, MARCH 20, 1825. The same journal expresses a hope, that some portion of the foregoing statement may prove erroneous, but at the same time mentions the receipt of letters from Mofussil, referring to the existence of disagreeable reports; and from Bareilly, announcing, that the 5th cavalry, which had arrived there, and were under orders to march on the 6th, had been directed to stand fast, in consequence of intelligence from Mooradabad, the tenor of which the journalist declined to state at present. An unfortunate paper, this Indian Observer of the 18th of Nov. to conclude a series of journals for a ship bound to Europe. Mr. O'CONNELL'S letter to the Catholic Association announced a sort of compact entered into between the Catholic Deputies in Loudon, and the official personages who support "Emancipation" in Parliament, the object of which is to get Sir F. BURDETT's Bill passed by tacking to it three measures which it is supposed will soften the opposition of the Ultras. These three measures are-the appointment of a Board, composed of Catholics, under the approbation of Government, to secure the exclusion of foreigners from the Irish Prelacy, to keep a register of the Catholic Clergy, and to enquire into and report to Government upon their characters; the payment of the Parish Priests out of the taxes of the United Kingdom; and the disfranchisement of the 40s. freeholders, by limiting the qualification for voting to a freehold of 10l. a-year. Mr. O'CONNELL strongly recommends his countrymen to accept the " Emancipation" upon these conditions, which he considers either harmless or beneficial. Mr. LAWLESS, however, a member of the Deputation, and the Editor of that honest and spirited paper, the Belfast Irishman, has published a letter in the London papers, in which he denounces the arrangement as cruel and degrading to the Irish people, as an insidious attempt to deprive them of a valuable privilege under the guise of concession; and he advises them to stand upon the broad ground of unqualified Emancipation, which will ensure them the respect and support of the English people, rather than submit to terms which will expose them to contempt, without affer all securing the relief held out. WE learn by the French papers the arrival of the Austrian Minister, Prince METTERNICH, at Paris, a circumstance which necessarily gives rise to much conjecture upon the object of his mission. Agreeably to the tenor of private correspondence, this ominous politician and diplomatist is attended by his physician and secretary only; which fact may imply a brief but by no means an unimportant purpose; although if, according to Parisian opinion, his object is simply to claim, in the name of the young NAPOLEON, the 200 millions (of livres) bequeathed to him by his father, the subject is of special rather than of general importance. If such be the case, it is thought, in France, that the demand will be complied with; which, however, we exceedingly doubt; although upon what principle the son is not to inherit the private property of his father, we know not. It has been since stated, thas this journey has been caused only by the dangerous illness of the Princess METTERNICH, who seeks surgical aid at Paris. We are by no means, however, disposed to believe, that mere geneal purposes are connected with this mission. The comparative liberality of the new King of NAPLES, for instance, may form one of its causes, especially as that Monarch, who is a BOURBON, has been invited to Milan,-an invitation which, it is said, he has refused to accept. Now if the "settlement of Europe" requires some farther Austrian soldierly liberties in that quarter, the acquiescence of the head of the family will doubtless be deemed necessary. The Grecian quarrel may likewise have something to do with this journey; for we hope we are not prejudiced-but in our estimation, the Holy Alliance may be compared, at this time, to a couchant but watchful tiger, waiting for the most convenient opportunity to spring upon nascent liberty wherever it may appear within its reach. Such, at least, being the nature and principles of the confederacy, the slightest movement on the part of the spotted and insidious monster necessa-sacrifices, in order to obtain the repeal of those detestable laws which rily gives rise to apprehensions of some forthcoming act of ferocity, duplicity, or opyressive interference, in which strength forms the only right, and hypocrisy the only pretension, By the East India Company's ship, the Mellish, letters and papers have been received from Calcutta up to the 19th Nov. inclusive. In relation to the late mutiny, they continue to describe the danger as entirely subsided; but so far from being satisfied with the conduct of the Native Officers of the offending regiment, it seems, that although they took no actual part in the act of mutiny, they are all dismissed by the Indian Government. The reason assigned for this severity is, their not reporting to authority the dissatisfaction of the regiment, which they could not but have for some time known. Eleven of the ringleaders have been executed, and fifty or sixty more are condemned to hard labour. The number killed in the fray is not stated, but as the fugitives were not spared even at the moment, nor all the next day, it must be large. The Hurkaru Calcutta paper, expatiates with extreme fluency upon the good effects of this severity, and of the excellent spirit thereby infused into the rest of the Native Troops, who, in consequence, are absolutely burning to meet the foe, and wipe out this ugly stain upon their loyalty!-a proof of which truth is, no doubt, to be found in a proclamation against desertion among these very troops, which, in point of fact, are deserting on various stations. The official order on this untoward subject, issued by the Govenor-General in Council, after detailing the facts of the Mutiny, and the conduct of the Native Officers as above related, orders that the No. 47 be struck out of the Indian Army List, in lieu of which, a No. 69 is to be instituted, into which, or into other regiments, the 180 privates who adhered to their duty are to be drafted. We would go a great way in concession, and recommend great shut out Catholics from the civil privileges of other British subjects; but we confess the conditions which are proposed to be attached to that relief, appear to us particularly improper and mischievous. Nor can we perceive, that they are calculated to remove a single rational objection of those who sincerely oppose the Catholic claims. If it is safe to admit Catholics to the enjoyment of the privileges of the Constitution, the security consists in attaching them by ties of interest and social feeling to the state; and this inquisitorial Board will cause an impolitic distrust, without offering a solid barrier against real dangers. The payment of the Catholic Clergy would be a very proper thing, if the money were taken from the Protestant Church; but to call upon the already over-taxed people of these Islands to contribute still further the support of any clerical body, is really monstrous. Unhappy Ireland now pays three millions a-year to support in shameful luxury a Clergy without flocks; and yet it is proposed, while this enormous ecclesiastical provision exists-not to restore the Catholics a portion of what was once all their own, but to pay them out of the national funds! Far from removing any objection of the English Protestants by this measure, it appears to us to create a just one on their part. True, the pensioning of the Catholic Clergy would make them to a certain extent dependent on the Government (and that is no doubt the real reason for the proposition); but this would be a still greater evil: it would weaken the confidence of the Irish iu their ministers, and by that means seriously impair the tu fluence which the latter-according to the Irish Ministers them selves-so virtuously and usefully employ. The third measure is still worse. A pretty improvement now-a-days, to limit the electoral suffrage at the moment when the professed object is, to concede privileges to the Catholics! It is said, and we believe truly, that in most cases the poor 40s. freeholders are driven to the poll by their In addition to these particulars, it seems that accounts from Madras have reached Calcutta, bringing rumours of a very disagree-superiors, like cattle to the market; and that consequently, while no able nature; one of which, according to the Indian Observer, states, that "an unfortunate affair had taken place between a small body of our troops, and the garrison of a refractory petty Chief. A troop of horse-artillery, under Captain BLACK, on their march from Fort St. George to another station, when about 30 miles from Darwar, was ordered by Mr. THACKERAY, the Chief Commissioner and Collector in that part of the country, to attack a small fort, the Chief of which had manifested a disposition to revolt. An attack was consequently made; a sally took place from the fort, and the whole troop, there is much reason to fear, has been cut off to a man (with the exception of Dr. TURNBULL, the assistant-surgeon). Captain BLACK, Lieutenants SEWELL and DIGHTON, and Mr. THACKERAY, are reported to be real franchise is enjoyed, the creation of votes by petty freeholds aggravates the evil of subdividing land, under which Ireland already suffers. This should be remedied, assuredly; but not in the way proposed. In the first place, it does not follow, that the 40s. freeholders would suffer themselves to be driven in the present way, if they had the additional motive of voting for men of their own religious persuasion. At any rate, as Mr. LAWLESS justly observes, the very necessity of so bringing them up to the poll, gives an importance to the poor Irishman. It requires no great sagacity to detect the insidious motive of those who propose this disfranchisement, when we recollect, that they are the very men who stickle for boroughmongering in England, who would rather give up anything The Catholic Association had a meeting on Wednesday. The sub. scriptions for the two last weeks reached 30007. Mr. Arnot, one of the victims of the power of arbitrarily sending En rous, than the power of bringing up their 40s. freeholders by bribery or terrorism! Can we believe that these men are shocked at the corruption, and the influence of great men, to which the Irish poor are subjected? Admitting the evil, is it the remedy, at the moment whenglishmen out of India, has come home in the Mellish, guilty of the offence Catholics are rendered eligible to Parliament, to disfranchise their of being suspected of having written something in an Indian newspaper electors? Is the suffrage to be contracted, when the object is to raise not punishable by law. the Catholic in the scale of political importance? Are the proposers arranging the Subscriptions for the erection of a public testimonial to the MONUMENT TO MAJOR CARTWRIGHT.-A meeting of the Committee for of this measure ignorant, that there is another and a complete remedy memory of the late Major Cartwright, was held at the house of P. for the mischief they denounce, which is wholly unobjectionable. We Moore, Esq. M. P. on the 12th inst. It appeared that between 100 and mean the BALLOT. By this admirable contrivance an effectual bar-500!. might theu be considered as subscribed, from comparatively rier is interposed between the elector and those who would influence private sources; and when the contributions resulting from a publie his vote: as far as his choice goes, he is as independent of his land- 4 appeal shall be added, the amount will be considerably increased. Cu land, or employer, or any rich corruptionist, as if he were perfectly the Committee, we perceive the names of Sir F. Burdett, the Hon. G. independent in circumstances. Let us hear no more then of the Bennett, Mr. Hume, Colonel Johnson, Mr. James, &c. and, amongst the *melancholy necessity" of taking away a valuable privilege because rest, that of the late Reverend Dr. Parr, who has so soon followed his the possessors are not in a condition to use it uprightly. A few bal- The Trustees are Dr. Gilchrist and Mr. Slade; and the money is deporespected friend to that "bourne from whence no traveller returns." loting boxes, and black and white balls, can put them in that condition; and when the Orange Minister, Mr. PEEL, has just acknowsited at Ranson and Co.'s, Pail-mall, who receive subscriptions. ANOTHER MECHANICS' INSTITUTION.--An Institution similar to the ledged the beauty and efficacy of the ballot, by introducing it into his Mechanics' was opened on Thursday week, for the convenience of the new Jury Bill, how can it be pretended, that the disfranchisement of inhabitants of Spital Fields, Bethnal Green, &c. The first meeting was the Irish peasants is necessary to conciliate the conscientious oppo-held in Gibraltar Chapel, Bethnal-green-road, and was attended by nents of the Catholic Claims? about 700 mechanics. The meeting would have been much more tumehad not the size of the building rendered it necessary to limit the INDIA-HOUSE-On Friday, a ballot was taken for the determination of issue of tickets. The business was opened by the Chairman, Mr. Gibson, the following question, viz. That this Court having taken into consi- and explained in a very appropriate speech by Dr. Birkbeck, who, deration the Papers printed in pursuance of its order of the 3d March understand, was particularly requested by the institutors to attend, 1 last, relating to the pecuniary transactions of the house of Messrs. Wil show the unity of purpose and plan in the two separate institutions. Mr. liam Palmer and Co. at Hydrabad, with the Government of his Highness Partington, of the London Institution, then delivered a lecture on the the Nizam, is of opinion, that there is no ground for imputing corrupt mechanical powers. The auditory were very attentive, and appeared to motives to the late Governor-General of India, the Most Noble the Mar-appreciate the intentions of the founders. A very handsome subscription quess of Hastings, K. G. or to any member of the Bengal Government; has been made, principally among the silk trade, in furtherance of the at the same time, this Court feels called upon to record its approval of object of the Institution, and there seems every prospect of success. the political dispatches to the Bengal Government under date the 24th Our readers will learn, in another column, how the gallant and pagiMay, 1820, 28th November, 1821, 9th April, 1823, and 21st January, listic Colonel Berkeley, full of wrath against the Editor of a Cheltenham 1824." At six o'clock the glasses were closed and delivered to the Scru- paper, on account of some alleged aspersions of the Ladies who visit at tineers, who reported the question to be decided in the affirmative. For Berkeley Castle, proceeded to the lodgings of the said Editor, horsewhip the question, 575-Against the question, 306. in hand-how, on his arrival, the active Colonel soon began to apply the said horsewhip to the shoulders, head, and face, of the passive Editorand how, when fatigued by these valiant exertions, he got into his carriage and rode off like a victor at the Olympic Games! We have not information enough to enable us to form an opinion of the demerits of this striking affair; but, certainly, we have little sympathy to bestow on the pounded flesh and bones of a man, whose spirit could allow him to subunit to be horse whipped without offering the smallest resistance! This greatly puzzles us. Of what faith Mr. Judge may be, we are quite at a loss to guess. The Christian it cannot be, for he did not willingly did anything but "smite the uncircumcised dog." turn his left cheek to the assailant; neither can it be the Turkish, for he CITY TITHES.-At the Court of Common Counsel, on Friday, Mr. Hurcombe brought up the report of the Tithe Committee. He said, he was happy to inform the Court that the Bishop of Chester, who was rector of Bishopsgate, had come to an agreement with his parishioners on grounds which reflected great credit on his Lordship. His tithes amounted to 2,5001, per annum, of which he agrees to give up 3001. a-year, on condition that it should be paid to the eurate of the new church about to be built. The report recommended to the Court to give the parishes the assistance requested by them. It was unanimously agreed to, and referred back to the Committee, with directions to carry the recommendation into effect. Lieutenant George Lindesay, of the Royal Navy, has lately invented a machine, which he terms a Marine Circuitor, by which means he can place our largest ships of war in any position immediately, when ships are dismasted in action, or attacked by gun-boats during a calm.—Mechanics' Register. On Sunday the 20th ult,, a battle was fought in Camberwell parish, and the parish officers secured the two principals, the two seconds, and one of the bottle-holders, the other escaped. The five men taken were indicted for creating a disturbance, convicted, and sentenced to imprisonment, which sentence is now being carried into execution. If fights are A BAD REASON.-The Times, alluding to the excitement and newspaper warfare, occasioned in the United States by the Presidential election, sagely remarks," It affords matter for reflection to observe, that the charge of corruption is brought even in the election to this the supreme office of the State. Hereditary succession, in a limited monarchy, seems less objectionable as a system than a periodic election, as far at least as regards the liability to such a charge." The latter clause is a special qualification, no doubt, and goes a good way towards rendering the observation pointless. Still the very idea of depreciating popular election, on account of the temporary ferment it excites, is characteristic of a time-server. The political agitation produced by an exercise of the elec-fought in England, they must be fought in a parish, and if all parish tive franchise among a people really free, far from being mischievous, officers will be directed by that spirit which animated these gentlemen, is a wholesome stimulant, and serves to prevent that apathy, which au effecual stop will be put to this debasing practice.—Times. another class of objectors to popular government describe as the conse- WORDSWORTH.-Mr. Wordsworth, in his person, is about the quence of the supreme sovereignty of the people. That there is nothing middle size, with marked features, and an air somewhat stately and dangerous to public tranquility in such contests, is proved by the exam-Quixotic. He reminds one of some of Holbein's heads, grave, saturnine, ple of the United States. We never hear of tumults or riots there at with a slight indication of sly humour, kept under by the manners of the election-time, simply because there is no disfranchised and discontented age or by the pretensions of the person. He has a peculiar sweetness in body. Each man, having an equal and (thanks to the BALLOT) an un- his smile, and great depth and manliness and a rugged harmony in the controlled electoral privilege, feels no jealousy or hatred towards his tones of his voice. His manner of reading his own poetry is particularly fellow citizens whose votes are opposed to his. The struggle for a imposing: and in his favourite passages his eye beams with preternatural favourite candidate may be fierce and noisy enough; but an appeal to lustre, and the meaning labours slowly up from his swelling breast. No brute force is never dreamt of by any party. As for the charge of cor- one who has seen him at these moments could go away with an impression ruption in some American paper, applied to the late election, it is a mere that he was a man of no mark or likelihood. Perhaps the comment of ebullition of a disappointed partizan, and can produce nothing but his face and voice is necessary to convey a full idea of his poetry. His laughter among his own readers. If the Representatives do amiss, the language may not be intelligible, but his manner is not to be mistaken. electors know the remedy will be soon in their hands, at the quickly re- It is clear that he is either mad or inspired. In company, even in a curring general election that is always an ample security against vio- tête-à-tête, Mr. Wordsworth is often silent, indolent, and reserved. If he lence, and even in a great degree against bad passions. is become verbose and oracular of late years, he was not so in his better days. He threw out a bold or au indifferent remark without either effort or pretension, and relapsed into musing again. He shone most (because he seemed most roused and animated) in reciting his own poetry, or in talking about it. le sometimes gave striking views of his feelings and trains of association in composing certain passages; or if one did not always understand his distinctions, still there was no want of interestthere was a latent meaning worth inquiring into, like a vein of ore that one cannot exactly hit upon at the moment, but of which there are sure indications. His standard of poetry is high and severe, almost to exclu siveness. He admits of nothing below, scarcely of anything above, himself. The Spirits of the Age. : Some of the papers say, that Mr. Hayne is positively to marry Miss Foote to-morrow," while the Globe of last night affirms that the intimacy has not been renewed. The publication of Harriette Wilson's threatening Letter to Mr. Ellice, a very proper and spirited proceeding, has done much good. The" common damned" now disclaim all connexion with the mercenary creatureher worthy publisher excepted, who seems to be the only person willing to shed his ink and his reputation,-both perhaps of equal value,--in the service of this abandoned woman.--Mr. Stockdale labours as stoutly to forward Miss Harriette Wilson's interests as he used to do for those of the "Protestant Ascendancy," and doubtless from the same pure motives! NEWSPAPER CHAT. ioners might have given the matter a turn complimentary to their venerable Pastor. It was a subject for congratulation, that under his ministry, the paw-paw establishment to which the salver belonged had been broken up and its brightest ornament triumphantly conveyed to the rectory. Besides," to the Pure, all things are pure." Our ancestors did not scruple to make a Christian Church out of an old Heathen Temple-even of Venus; but their descendants it seems are nicer than even the Council of Nice!-Globe and Traveller. PROTESTANT MOB MORALITY.-When Nell Gwynn, says Grainger, was insulted in her coach at Oxford by the mob, who mistook her for the Duchess of Portsmouth (another Mistress of Charles H. but a Papist)— she looked out of the window, and said with her usual good humour, Pray, good people, be civil, I am the Protestant W―e:” and this lacomic speech drew upon her the blessings of the populace, who suffered her to proceed without further molestation. NAPOLEON AND HIS SON.-The boxes were brought, broken open, and some books were taken out of them, which Aly was going to give to the Emperor. "No," said Napoleon," that is not what I want. Look into the box-examine it carefully-make haste-a package sent from Europe must contain something else-books are not the first things a father has to look at."-He was right: we presently found a picture sent to him by Prince Eugene. He received it with transports of joy, pressed it to his lips, and gazing upon it for some time with tears in his eyes-“ Dear boy!" exclaimed he, if he does not fall a victim to some political atrocity, he will not be unworthy of his father!"-Last Days of Napoleon. THE CENCI.-A very interesting translation of the papers relating to the trial of the famous Cenei, has just appeared. The family of the Cenci was one of the most opulent in Rome in the seventeeth century. Cenci, the head of the family, a man of the most violent character, detested his sons, and while they were living, built tombs for them, to which he constantly expressed the hope of seeing them consigned. For his daughter he entertained far other sentiments. He loved her with the most violent passion. She resisted his importunities for a long time; at last fearing the violence of her terrible father, she hired assassins, to destroy him. Her trial was long protracted; but as she was very rich, the courtiers of the reigning Pope persuaded him to send her to the scaftising for persons of capital to establish manufactories there, they having fold. Guido, the immortal painter, who was then at Rome, contrived to paint a portrait of this lovely girl at the moment she was going to execution. This most touching perhaps of all paintings, is in the collection of Prince Barberini, at Rome. The trial of la Cenci exhibits a striking picture of the ferocious manners of the Romans of the 17th century. It is a fine supplement to the Memoirs of Benvenuto Celleni.-Letters from Paris in the London Magazine. See Mr. Shelley's fine and interesting Tragedy founded on the above facts. VOLTAIRE AND THE PHILOSOPHICAL DICTIONARY.-If Voltaire had been hanged or burnt in 1765, as the Chevalier de la Barre was at Abbeville, the progress of good sense in France would have been retarded forty or fifty years. Voltaire, Fontenelle, and Montesquieu, successfully exposed the Sorboune and the University, which were the vanguard of the despotic throne of Louis XV. That Monarch, who had considerable sense, saw the turn that affairs were taking, and frequently said, for his own consolation,—“ The present state of things will last longer than I | shall." He was right he died in 1775, and the monarchy in 1789.Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary, which, by the bye, has only just now been translated into English, was, in 1775, the catechism of every body in France who could read and recite.-—London Magazine: Art." Letters from Paris." -SPIRIT OF ARISTOCRACY.-The following is the style in which Mr. Theodore Hook describes the late outrage at Harrow:-"The fact is, that some of the Crops had been insolent, and afterwards wished to save themselves a thrashing, and so applied to Bow-street; and there is an end of it-it is what their betters have done before them."-When the teader recollects that the circumstance alluded to was the refusal of a blacksmith to betray his son to the brutal violence of these spoiled boys, he may judge of the kind of tyranny which this writer would wish to establish over the lower classes, and of the base flattery which he thus administers to the upper, for the purpose of selling the Smutty Gazette. FORTUNATE IRREGULARITY.-Last summer the Rumney estate and iron works in Northamptonshire were sold by auction, but, an irregularity having taken place in the sale, it has been decided that the property reverts to the former owner, Benjamin Hall, Esq. to whom it is how worth, in consequence of the advance in iron, from 30 to 50,0004, more than it then sold for. SINGULAR ADVERTISEMENT.-' -The inhabitants of Salisbury are adver a very numerous population unemployed." We are happy to say that their case is at present a very peculiar one. The people of Salisbury had better transfer some of their surplus population to Macclesfield, where the silk manufacture is extending with such prodigious rapidity, that 4 or 5 000 hands are wanted in that department, and 1000 houses are about to be built.—Leeds Mercury. INTERNAL COMMUNICATION.-As late as the year 1720, when the era of inland navigation commenced in this country, by the deepening of the rivers Mersey and Irwell, the carrying trade between Manchester and Liverpool was performed principally by gangs of pack-horses. The owners of these horses, of course, alleged that their rights would be invaded and their profits diminished by the new navigation, though whether they presented petitions to Parliament, complaining of the infringement, and praying that the proprietors might not be allowed to proceed, is more than we can say; but supposing that this had been done, and that Parliament in its wisdom bad determined to protect the vested interests of these ancient carriers from invasion; and allowing further that the intercourse between Manchester and Liverpool had continued to increase till it had attained its present magnitude of 1000 tons a day, the consequence would have been, that the inhabitants of Lancashire would have had to maintain upon this road alone FORTY THOUSAND PACK-HORSES, which would, when in marching order, have formed continuous line in close array of upwards of 80 miles.-Leeds Mercury. DIAMONDS. The weight of diamonds is estimated in carats, 150 of which are equal to one cunce troy. The average price of rough diamonds is about 24. per carat. According to this scale, a wrought diamond, 3 carats, is worth 721., and one of 100 carats, 80,0004.-The largest diamond probably ever heard of, is one mentioned by Tavernier, who saw it in the possession of the Great Mogul. It was about as big as a hen's egg. and weighed 900 carats in the rough. The largest diamond ever brought to Europe is one now in the possession of the sovereign of Russia." It weighs 195 carats, and was long employed as the eye of a braminical idol. A French soldier discovered the value of the gem, and changed his religion, worshipping at the altar of the god, that he might deprive him of his splendid eye. At length he succeeded in substituting a piece of glass for the diamond, and again became a good Christian! After passing through several hands, the Empress Catherine at length fixed it in the possession of the Russian crown, giving for it 90,000l. and a perpetual annuity of 1000. It is cut in the rose form, and is the size of a pigeon's egg.—One of the most beautiful is the Pitt diamond, which is a brilliant, and weighs rather more than 136 carats. It was brought from India by a gentleman of the name of Pitt, and purchased by the Duke of Orleans, who placed it in the crown of France, where it still remains. The celebrated Pigot diamond is now in the possession of Messrs. Rundell and Bridges.-Chemist. ACTHOR OF WAVERLEY.-At the annual dinner of the Celtic Society, Sir Walter Scott sustained the honours of the Chair in the most fascinat ing manner. Among the latest of the toasts, was a health to the Author of Waverley, proposed by Mr. Horner. I cannot say," were the words of the distinguished Baronet's remark," that I am particularly acquainted with the gentleman; but he is very strongly recommended to us; and, if you please, I shall give the time to his honours." Right loudly were the honours rung; and thus Sir Walter Scott may be said to have conferred his public honours on the Author of Waverley.—Edinburgh Times. | THE PROFANE VESSEL!-A Morning Paper has given a rather circumstantial account of the offering of an unlucky silver waiter, that had been a piece of plate in a house not of the best character, to the Rev. Archdeacon Potts, by his parishioners of St. Martin's-in-the-Field's. The waiter was not made new to order; it was agreed between the silversmith and the gentlemen who were commissioned to make the purchase, that they should have the plate" second-land," by which means they would get something more handsome for their money. A superb salver was accordingly chosen, inscribed, green-bagged, and carried up in a coach, by a deputation; and itavas then, after an address, and a formal presentation, that the offering was declined. "Some d-d good-natured anonymous friend" had enclosed to the Archdeacon au extract from a sale catalogue, containing a character from its last place of the very waiter in question,taltic action of the bowels by diet, and consequently purgative medicine The Archdeacon recognized it at a glance (from the description, we thean) and would not take it into his service; it was reluctantly rebagged, and carried back to the silversmith, who readily enough confessed where he had it from, but he had never dreaint of, and could not enter into the scruples of the churchman, neither could he give any thing for the article in return but its price as old silver, for it was inscribed to order, with n rather ample and affectionate address to the Archdeacon. And there the matter resis. The scene between Dr. Potts and the parishioners must have been, however, highly comic. Conceive the Venerable the Arch-is, in some cases of indigestion, too astringent. If it be considered by any descon with the catalogue in the pocket till the obnoxious saiver was w.bagged, hearing all the parochial dummery, perusing the inscription and then gently drawing out the catalogue from his pocket, and identifying it by its marks as the spoil of the ungodly! We think, however, the parish. HOME-BAKED BREAD. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LANCET.-Sir, I was much gratified by reading some observations in a late Number, on the unwholesome qualities of baker's bread, accompanied with a recommendation to adopt home-baked bread. I have long experienced in my family, as well as in my practice, the deleterious effects of bakers' bread, and consequently have baked at home. In cases of indigestion, it is not a very easy thing, although most desirable, to excite the regular, perisis continually resorted to for this purpose. The continual use of purgatives is objectionable; but how is it to be obviated? By home-baked bread! Let the best and cleanest wheat be ground by an honest miller without being dressed at all-no bran is to be taken from it-made into bread, and well baked. The first week any one tries this, who has been requiring medicine daily, he will find such benefit that he will not be inclined readily to part with it. If made from the best wheat, the bread is not so brown as may be supposed. Household bread, when made of fine flour, that the bran can have a pernicious effect on the stomach and bowels, I should be happy to be informed of the reasons of their opinion.I remain, Sir, your well wisher, J. L. FENNER, Member of the R. C. Surgeons.-Abbotsbury, March 8, 1825." I SPANISH REVOLUTION,-Napoleon had heard a few days before the details of the Spanish Revolution. That event did not appear to surprise him much: he had foreseen it, and merely said to us, Ferdinand is a man incapable of governing himself, and, à fortiori, the Peninsula. With respect to the Constitution of the Cortes, it is in opposition with the dogmas of the Holy Alliance; it strikes at the foundation of the prejudices and interests of devotees, and cannot therefore last long. Those who have promulgated it have neither the strength nor the means necessary to maintain it."-Last Days of Napoleon. SCOTCH CHURCH-"No POPERY."-On Sunday morning last was reproduced here the ancient dramatic monologue of "No Popery. Mr. Edward Irving acted on this occasion with more than his usual ferocity of manner and ardour of gesticulation. Koox in his hottest days of persecution was a puling whimperer to Edward Irving, and Cobbett's Book of the Roman Catholic Church is milk and water to the rancour of his style, and the high colouring of his details. Gathering from every idle and aggravated source the abuses and practices which for three centuries have been " dead and buried," he concentrated their essence and showered it forth with unmitigated force. Even his warmest admirers, as they separated into groups after his performance, shrunk in horror from the feast on which the disordered imagination of their preacher had been feeding them. "Why charge on the Catholics of the present day the sins of their fathers?" said the more moderate among them; "Shame on him" said others, whose indignation had been somewhat roused by his coarse and indecent ridicule. It is really curious that at a time when Protestants and Catholics are projecting the heinous sin of mutual oblivion and cordial union, the ministers of religion should be the only persons for the fire of dissention.-Globe and Traveller. LAW. LENT ASSIZES. the operation itself was not a dangerous one, but the after treatment had caused a mortification. Mr. Justice BAYLEY here observed,—It is right that the public should know that this practice is not legal with respect to children, and that they should understand that this indictment goes off only because it is not pro. perly framed as to the description of the means of death-The Jury then acquitted the prisoner -He was dressed in a dark frock coat, made like a bunting coat, with steel buttons. Unlike one of the witnesses, he was smoothly shaved; he exhibited a pair of large and well-nurtured whiskers, and a countenance that betrayed no symptom of his denying himself the good things of this world. He appeared about 34 years of age. When he was leaving the dock, Mr. Justice BAYLEY said to him, If my advice has any weight with you, I would recommend you to abstain from that practice in future, at least with regard to children.-The prisoner looked a good deal flushed when he received this advice, but he said nothing; and left the dock apparently without any intention of acting upon it. Richard Reed was charged with killing Ellen Dickinson, at Chorley. He was a farmer, and amongst his cows he kept one which was notoriously mischievous. He had frequent occasion to know that it was dan. gerous for any person to go near it; several persons had been hurt by it, and the woman in question was passing through the field where it hap pened to be: it followed her out on the road, and mangled her in so dreadful a manner, that she died in à few days after.-Mr. Justice BAYLEY told the Jury, that if a man kept an animal which he knew to be mali. ciously inclined, and did not take measures to prevent it from injuring other persons, he was responsible for the consequences.-Guilty. MARCH 16-SEDUCTION -SUTCLIFFE . TAYLOR -This was an action for damages, brought by a Mother for the seduction of her daughter, the child of a reputable farmer at Burnley, aged 22. The Defendant was a clogger and a cordwainer, about 23 years of age. He had proposed to marry the young woman, but after having seduced her, and she had been d. livered of a child, he refused to be married After the ATTORNEYLANCASTER-SCOTCH MARRIAGES -A case of ejectment of considerable GENERAL had addressed the Jury for the Plaintiff, and witnesses had been examined-Mr. BROUGHAM rose and said, Well, gentlemen, what importance was tried on Saturday. The plaintiff, an infant of tender age, brought, by his friends, an action to obtain possession of certain property do you think of this farmer's daughter? You have heard my Learned in Manchester, which had belonged to his deceased father, Mr. Peter Friend, and what he has brought to light on the subject. His Learned Davenport Finney, and which was withheld by the defendants, Roylance Friend had lamented the frequency of this crime, and the evil tendency and others, on the ground that he was not the legitimate son of Mr. Fin-of which was bad enough, God knows; but what did they think of this ney, his mother never having been legally married to him. It was also little peacock, who had shown herself up in all her borrowed plumes, contended, as a ground for resisting the claim, that his father in his own and like that bird, all her merit appeared to be in her tail-(loud laughwill had described him as an illegitimate son, and had bequeathed him ater).-If this young lady were to take off her fine pelisse, her veil and property of 20,000l. as such, he being fully aware that his son could not hat, what would she appear like? what a farmer's daughter ought to be. succeed to his estate in law. In the case of the plaintiff, his mother and The Jury had heard that she refused to say where the affair had taken several other witnesses were called to prove that a marriage had taken place; she was asked if it did not take place in the house, but she replace is Scotland some time after the parties bad cohabited, and before fused to say in what part. What would the Jury think of this? where the plaintiff was born. The mother, and Mary Wilmot the servant, did it take place? The defendant, they had heard, was a simple clogger, deposed, that the deceased had read the marriage ceremony from the Book and possessed no estate whatever. If parents would not keep a vigilant of Common Prayer, and desired the servant to bear witness that they were eye on their children, they must take the consequences on themselves; fairly married. Several persons proved that subsequent to this ceremony they were often the instruments of their seduction. As to damages, the the father of the plaintiff had acknowledged his mother as his wife, and least coin would be sufficient for the ends of justice. that this alone, according to the law of Scotland, was sufficient evidence of marriage. Mr. Campbell, a Writer to the Signet in Scotland, on being examined as to the law of Scotland on the subject, stated that the mere expression of the consent of the parties before witnesses was sufficient to render a marriage valid, and a passage from Mr. Erskine's Institutes the same effect was read in Court. The Learned Judge, in summing up: said he considered the validity of the marriage clearly established, and that the impression upon the mind of the deceased, that his son was not legitimately born, could not set aside the received law of Septland, which recognized his legitimacy. The Jury without hesitation found their verdict for the plaintiff. to The passage read imputed "that the consent of parties was essential to marriage in Scotland; that such consent might be either express or tacit; that the ceremony might be repeated by a clergyman, but neither was it essential that it should be repeated by a elergyman, or repeated at all; that the consent of the parties given before a civil magistrate, or wit nesses, was sufficient; that it might be expressed in a written document; that the subsequent acknowledgment of the parties themselves was sufficient, if not jocularly made; and that marriage was to be presunied from cohabitation where the parties were reputed to be man and wife." MARCH 14.-DEATH CAUSED BY FANATICISM.-Henry Lee was charged with killing Daniel Grimshaw, a child of 15 days old-It appears that a sect, called the Johannahites, disciples of the late old dropsical Johanna Southcote, has lately increased, particularly in the neighbourhood of Ashton-under-Line. The children belonging to that sect were circumcised on the eighth day after birth. During the ceremony, music was performed in a garret, which they called a chapel, where the pions cutting took place. The child, whose death formed the subject of this enquiry, was circumcised by the prisoner.-When the incision was made, a cobweb was applied to it to stop the blood, and over this was placed a linen rag. The child was born on the 9th of September; it was circumcised on the 16th, and it died on the 23d, from a mortification in the wounded part.Witnesses were examined, and among them the father of the sacrificed child, who said that he himself had been circumcised, and that a cobweb bad also been applied to him! He believed in the Scriptures (the poor creature added); and as the rite of circumcision was a covenant formed by God with Abraham, he deemed it a proper one!-A Surgeon stated, that The Jury found for the plaintiff—Damages, 601. 46 SALISBURY-Mr. Thomas Flower, treasurer to the Melksham Turnpike Trust, was charged with baving uttered a forged paper, purporting to be a receipt for money, with intent to defraud the Commissioners of the When arraigned, he pleaded guilty," and notwithstanding he was Trust. The prisoner was arrested in Holland and brought to England. advised to take his trial, he persisted in so pleading. The learned Judge sentenced the prisoner to seven years' transportation for the charge to which he had pleaded guilty.—The assizes concluded on Wednesday evening. All the prisoners on whom sentence of Death had been passed, were reprieved. [During the proceedings, Judge PARK said, “I never in my life have been in such a Court as this: there is nothing but attornies passing and repassing all the day, whatever may be the business of the moment. I desire that it may be discontinued in future."] STAFFORD, MARCH 14-Libel.—Mr. Amphlett, the proprietor of the Staffordshire Pottery Gazette, was indicted for a libel on Messrs. Ridgway. Mr. CAMPBELL stated, that Mr. A was a journalist of considerable experience. From the commencement of his career at Stafford he had edited several newspapers, among which were The Rifleman, The Dissenter, and The Birmingham Argus-papers of very different politics from that which he now conducted, which was an Uitra Tory and Ultra Church journal! The Messrs. Ridgway had the misfortune to fall under his displeasure. A newspaper of different sentiments, called The Pottery Mercury, had been recently started, and he thought fit to consider then as concerűéd in that journal. For this surmise there was not the least foundation. On Saturday, July 10, the publication appeared in The Pottery Gazette on which the prosecution was founded. The Learned Counsel then read the article. It charged some persons, as connected with the rival newspaper under the name of "the Radical Saints of Shelton," with unfair dealing; and alleged that they were guilty of defrauding the revenue in sending out an unstamped half sheet for 3d. containing Thurtell's trial, and that if information had been filed, they would have ruined "better men than Thomas Allbutt, the printer." It charged "the Saints" with illegally withholding their own names from the Stamp-office, and putting forward a mere man of straw to bear the consequences of their publications. In conclusion, it denounced the objects of its attack as bypocrites, "ready to |