Governor and Commander in Chief of the island of Newfoundland and its 4th of January, contains a dispatch, announcing another “decisive dependencies. 66 victory" on the 15th of December:-"The Prince,” it says, came down with above 20,000 men, under the pretence of suing for peace; but Sir A. CAMPBELL, seeing through the ruse, immediately attacked stand of arms, the whole of the camp equipage, and a considerable him-put him most completely to the route-and took about 3000 portion of the materiel, together with thirty war-boats." J. Warwick, Austin-friars, wine-merchant. Solicitor, Mr. Beckett," amiable" old beau garçon who is to be crowned. Nothing further has Salisbury-square, Fleet-street. J. Richardson, Liverpool, merchant. Solicitors, Messrs, Adlington, Adlington, Gregory, and Faulkner, Bedford-row. J. Barn, Manchester, cotton-merchant. Solicitors, Messrs. Ellis and Co. Lincoln's Inn-fields. E. Fox, Liverpool, surgeon. Faulkner, Bedford-row. J. Pavey, Staines, draper. hail-street. Solicitors, Messrs. Adlington, Gregory, and olicitors, Messrs. Sweet and Co. Basing B. Hard, Windsor-place, Middlesex, dealer. Solicitor, Mr. Sergeant, Barnard's-inn. C. C. Fitzpatrick, Great Guildford-street, Southwark, grocer. Solicitor, Mr. Collins, Spital-square." hall-street. T. Brownley, Poland-street, tailor. Solicitor, Mr. Tanner, New Basing T. H. Lloyd, Trafalgar-street, Walworth, warehouseman. Solicitor, Mr. Cope, Wilson-street, Gray's Inn-road. G. Burgess, Chatham, baker. Solicitor, Mr. Lewis, Crutched-friars. Smith, Apollo-buildings, East-street, Walworth, builder. Solicitors, Messrs. Watson and Son, Bouverie-street. R. Uphill, West Lydford, Somerset, apothecary. Solicitors, Messrs. Orchard and Co. Gray's Inn-square. The Continental news of the past week is little more than continuous. The time appointed for the Coronation of the KING of France is once more altered to the 29th of May, and the private letters abound with accounts of the increasing coldness and disgust of the people for the transpired in relation to the forthcoming discussions at Milan, but a strange exposure has been made by the Hon. LEICESTER STANHOPE, in the Daily Papers, of the wretched state of jealousy and fear of Austria. The authorities at Milan, it seems, under the most miserable pretences of informality in his passport, have refused a permission to Colonel STANHOPE to reside in that town-the real cause, no doubt, his spirited interference in the cause of Greece. Legitimacy and Despotism cannot possibly do better for the cause of freedom, than by thus exhibiting the puny and abject state of fear in which they exist. It would be absurd to quote America as a contrast, since Great Britain will serve the purpose. Puerile and miserable as is our Alien Bill, GEORGE IV. and his Council can retire to rest without an ague fit on the arrival of a foreigner of any description. What an family, a snake in every coffee-house; locks, bolts, and bars, its opposing pair of pictures !-Despotism, supported by a spy in every dependence; exclusion and persecution its resources. Freedom, erect and careless in its strength, fearing no danger; and, conscious of its power to meet any that may occur, magnanimous and unsuspecting. It is said, that, in the comparison, the late Lord LONDONDERRY blushed for the latter portrait-but, poor man, he is dead. A curious story from Dominica is arrived via Demerara. We are informed that the House of Assembly in the former Colony has H. Pettifer, High Holborn, cheesemonger. Solicitors, Messrs. Osbalde-addressed the Governor, requesting him to suspend the Chief Justice ston and Murray, London-street, Fenchurch-street. J. Shields, Bridge-road, Lambeth, wire-worker. Solicitors, Messrs. Rogers and Son, Manchester-buildings. pro THE FUNDS.-The depression in British Stock still continues, but with no very marked character. With the exception of Danish Scrip, which has improved, the Foreign Market exhibits little alteration, although some strong endeavours to affect Greek Scrip have been made by the pagation of gloomy news from Greece. Spanish Bonds are at 24 and a fraction. The Shares are generally lower; but, as the quotation of many of them are nominal, it is difficult to say how much so. Many of these bubbles it is evident will rapidly disappear. SATURDAY-A HOLIDAY at the Bank. Notices of the Novels of Tieck, Don Estaban, and Sylvan Sketches, in our next. THE EXAMINER. LONDON, APRIL 24, 1825. VICTORIES IN INDIA. ARRIVALS from India have brought intelligence to the 5th of January. They contain despatches from Sir ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL, dated Rangoon, December 10, announcing several victories over the Burmese. "MAHA BOUNDOOLA," says Sir A. CAMPBELL," appeared in front of my position on the morning of the 1st inst., at the head of the United force of the Burmahn empire, amounting to between fifty and sixty thousand men, with a numerous artillery, and a body of Cassay horse." After detailing the progress of the different actions from the 1st to the 7th of December, the despatch thus proceeds: "They were driven from all their works without a check, abandoning all their guns, with a great quantity of arms of every description. The total defeat of BOUNDOOLA's army was now most fully accomplished. His loss in killed and wounded, from the nature of the ground, it is impossible to calculate; but I am confident I do not exceed the fairest limits, when I state it at 5000 men. In every other respect, the mighty host which so lately threatened to overwhelm us, scarcely exists. It commenced its inglorious flight during last night. Humbled, dispersed, and deprived of their arms, they cannot, for a length of time, again meet us in the field; and the lesson they have now received, will, I am confident, prove a salutary antidote to the native arrogance and vanity of the Burmese nation. Of 300 pieces of ordnance, 240 are in our camp; and in muskets their loss is irreparable." Notwithstanding this confident language, the Calcutta paper of the until the decision of his Majesty in Council can be received, as to the propriety of the said Chief Justice editing and writing for the Dominica Gazette. The honest Senators of this Island opine, in direct opposition to certain legal luminaries of Scotland, that the functions of the Judge and the Journalist cannot be united in the same person without injury at once to the Press and the Judgment Seat. The notions of social order entertained by some of its avowed partisans are exceedingly singular; Bulls with them are guardians of doctrine, and Beacons of public morals, while party bush-fighting against character in a newspaper is deemed as becoming to a Magistrate as his robe! When the accounts came away, the Governor of Dominica had not acceded to the prayer of the Assembly, but had taken time to consider of it. The second reading of the Catholic Bill has been carried by a larger majority than was obtained on the first; and this success, of course, ensures its passage through the House of Commons, and limits our anxiety to its reception among the Peers. The discussions this year have upon the whole been marked by more good sense than we remember to have observed on former occasions. Many speakers have argued the question, not as one of theology, but as entirely one of policy-not as having reference to their feelings towards the Catholic religion or its professors, but as concerning the numbers and temper of six millions of British subjects. The leading Anti-Catholics, however, still harped upon the old string-still gravely talked of the danger afising from the inherent intolerance of Catholicism. Mr. CANNING was very triumphant in his answer to this fallacy: we should think the admirers of the Establishment and the Thirty-nine Articles must have bitterly regretted the provocation which drew from him so thorough an exposure of the equal intolerance of their own creed. The fact is, that a persecuting spirit does not belong so much to any religion as to the bad laws which interfere with religious matters. We see all over the world, that the same sect which at one time is fanatical and sanguinary, is at another mild and tolerant: we see that wherever the law interferes there is persecution and suffering wherever men's religious opinions are entirely left to themselves, the feeling of common justice implanted in our nature hinders them from quarrelling with each other on the score of faith. To argue that the Catholics of the nineteenth century would, if they had the power, renew the bloody doings of the sixteenth, is about as fair as to impute to the Protestants a secret longing for the revival of the burnings and executions of Papists in the time of ELIZABETH. Religion may form the pretext for persecution, and give it a more ferocious character; but legal exclusions and penalties have been its more exciting causes in every age. We lately met with a passage in M. FELIX BODIN's Introduction to a new History of Spain by M. RABBE which appears to be very much in point on this subject. Speaking of the impossibility of bringing back the Spanish people to what they were a century ago, M. BODIN says-" But it will be objected to me, that the Inquisition may be re-established in Spain. I answer, that the Inquisition could not do again what it once did. When an institution has grown out of date, after having produced its effect, we must not suppose that it can be resuscitated in its former youth and vigour, to accomplish anew the work of another age. In the political and social order of things, there is no example of a cause having produced the same results at two different epochs. Indeed it almost always happens, that revived institutions produce an effect directly the reverse of what they have given rise to under other circumstances." The reader will see by the Debates, that the cause of Toleration has obtained this year several converts from the opposing ranks. This fact is alone a powerful argument in its behalf; for what error ever gained converts by repeated discussion, more especially when interest was opposed to the conversion? I. S. T. A. B. C. D. 05 0 0 10 1 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 100 0 10 0 050 050 1 0 0 1 0.0 REMARKABLE SUCCESS OF JOINT-STOCK BANKS.-We extract the following curious facts from the Prospectus of the "Provincial Bank of Ireland." The English public should never forget, that but for the pernicious monopoly of the overgrown Establishment in Threadneedlestreet, banking business might have been carried on in the Southern The Stamford News supplies an amusing account of a self-styled portion of the Island as safely and beneficially as in the Northern, and "county meeting" at Oakham, the other day, which mustered four those numerous failures avoided, which have created so much suffering dozen persons, one half of them clergy, for the purpose of petitioning both in London and the provinces ;-to say nothing of the yearly sacri Parliament against the Catholic Claims. Sir GERARD NOEL. was the fice of hunian lives to the cold-blooded adherence of the Bank of England chief spokesman, and shewed himself certainly the most candid Anti-Directors to their vile forgery-tempting note." The Banking Business of Catholic we ever met with. As there was nobody to speak on the Scotland is almost entirely conducted by these Companies, and the price other side, we suppose the Hon. Baronet thought himself bound to of their shares is the best criterion of their success. Of the four Edinsupply the tolerant as well as the intolerant arguments; for after with capitals of a million and a half each, are at a premium of from 70 to burgh Banks, the Bank of Scotland, and the Royal Bank of Scotland, expressing his surprise that the Whigs of the present day should 100 per cent. The stock of the Commercial Bank, which only comsupport the removal of those restrains which their ancestors in the menced in 1810, and had to contend with a violent opposition, in a field time of James II. imposed-(it was not an affair of Catholic and completely pre-occupied, and the most disastrous times on commercial Protestant, but of Whig and Tory, of. Divine Right and popular record, is at 70 per cent. premium. The British Linen Company, 10 or checks)-he very honestly observed, that "the Catholics had in South 12 years ago, had, by the accumulation of its reserved fund or savings, America emancipated themselves from many things that were the raised its capital from Two to Five Hundred Thousand Pounds, since most obnoxious to Protestants, by abolishing the inquisition, giving which, notwithstanding the commercial distresses which have happened, greater liberty of conscience, and so forth; and therefore perhaps 500,000l. has risen to Two Hundred per cent. premium, so that an origiand the increased competition it has had to encounter, its stock of there was less danger to be apprehended from them than formerly." nal share of 2007. is now worth 1,500l. The Provincial Banks have been Less danger, indeed! Can there be any danger from a Catholic equally profitable:-a share of one of the Aberdeen Banks which cost minority striving at supremacy, when we see Catholics in countries 150l. at its first commencement about forty or fifty years ago, is now where they form (to speak roundly) the whole population, voluntarily worth 2,2001. and the stocks of the others bear without exception a consurrendering their obnoxious privileges? Can there be any danger siderable premium." in Britain, when we see this done in states but just emancipated from the grossest superstition and the most degrading tyranny? THE HOLY ALLIANCE.-The Hon. Leycester Stanhope, who has dis- In 1800, at 401. per ton, the tax produced £ 224,000 124,000 Loss: by increased duty and diminished consumption We shall soon see what effect the recent reduction of duty will have on the Treasury receipt. SHAMEFUL DELAY IN BUILDING THE NEW LAW COURTS, AND MORE SHAMEFUL CONSTRUCTION OF THEM. It is now four years since the preparations for the Coronation made it necessary to dismantle and pull down the Law Courts in Westminster Hall, and the longest calculation at that time did not carry the inconveniences likely to be sustained by their removal beyond a twelvemonth from that period. But, strange to say, only one Court, that of the Common Pleas, is as yet completed, and that, we believe, not much to the satisfaction of those who have to be engaged in it. The Chief Court of Justice in the kingdom is still compelled to hold its sittings in a pent-up Court, and that by mere sufferance from the Westminster Justices; and not unfrequently in the trumpery dining-room of that Worshipful Body. Mr. SCARLETT has given notice of his intention to bring the matter before the House of Commons. There must be a fault somewhere, and it is fit that Parliament and the country should know at whose door the blame lies. Besides these courts are, after all this lapse of time, said to be so constructed, both as to dimensions and accommodations, as to be by no means suited to the purposes for which they are designed. It is truly mortifying that a country like this, liberal to a fault in its expenditure, should thus be without the most important of its public offices, and that the hands to which such objects are confided should be so inadequate, or something else, to their compleMorning Herald. In the department of Landscape, the Water-colour Exhibition (which opens to the public To-morrow) excels all former ones, charming as they were. It was yesterday most deservedly and numerously attended at the private view, by rank and taste; the Duke of Norfolk, Marquess and Marchioness of Strafford, Sir Charles and Lady Long, Sir John Swinburne, Mr. Shee, &c. We shall duly notice it in our future numbers. SCHILLER'S BAllad of the Fight of the DRAGON.-There is scarcely a book designer in Europe who gives such adequate linear delineations of the deeply-felt descriptions of a great author as the German designer in outline, Retsch, and no Artist has shown himself more competent to engrave them than Mr. H. Moses. The heart-touching expression which is just now given in the first part of the Fight of the Dragon, is exactly what we anticipated from its announcement, and justifies an equally confident anticipation of a renewed and completed pleasure from the forthcoming second part. For though the story is comparatively trivial compared to the celebrated one of Faust, and the interest consequently inferior in the ropresentation of the Ballad, it is beautifully designed and engraved, and has much of the same natural and strong power, in the conception and delineation of those energetic emotions, arising out of a series of circumstances, produced by a scaled and ferocious animal prowling about with direful ravaging and deaths, until he is destroyed by stratagem and valour. FORGERY.-The case of Mr. Savary, whose execution for forgery, at Bristol, was ordered for Friday, is familiar to the public. His sentence, it appears, has been respited during the Royal pleasure. This, we be lieve, will give general satisfaction, and for two reasons:-The life of fellow-creature, whose crime, however serious, bears no character of atrocity, is spared-and this respite looks like an earnest that it is designed to mitigate the severity of a law, as impolitic as it is inhuman. There is scarcely any other ground on which the Royal mercy could be extended. There appears but one circumstance by which the crime of Mr. Savary is distinguished from that of other criminals convicted of forgery. The names he forged were fictitious, and he supposed this placed him beyond the reach of the law. But this could make no difference as to the fact and extent of the fraud. It is no defence-no palliation even that the culprit committed the fraud, knowing it to be such, but under a false notion that he was eluding the law. It is well advised that the life of Mr. Savary should be spared-but after the remission or commutation of his punishment, the execution of a sentence of death for forgery upon any other person would be monstrous-always supposing that the features of this case are correctly and fully before the public-and that the respite has been granted from no unknown or secret circumstance. The crime itself is become rare from the disappearance of Banknotes from general circulation. There is no longer the same temptation for the humble and ignorant to commit the crime-in fact, for those who were said to have no fear of exile, captivity, or shame-and upon whom the punishment of death alone was supposed capable of operating.— Morning Herald. It is whispered that two or three official persons have received a hint that the nature of their offices is not such as to require their attendance at the King's Levee.-Herald. ANTI-CATHOLIC PETITIONS.-The-Claims of our Catholic Countrymen have given rise to several interesting debates in the House of Commons. The only new feature which demands our attention, is the circumstance of vast numbers of Petitions being sent in against the emancipation of TO HEADS OF FAMILIES AND THE VICE-SUPPRESSION PEOPLE.-We those who profess the faith of our ancestors, and to whom, as Christians, are delighted to be able to inform our readers (says a Correspondent) on we are so much indebted. But who, that is aware how those Petitions are the most undoubted authority, that an edition of the moral and instructive got up, will attach any importance to them? Who will, for a moment, Memoirs of Harriette Wilson," adapted for families and young persons, pretend to say that they express the sense of the country? No one, we by the omission of all objectionable passages which cannot with propriety are sure, who, like us, has seen a Clergyman or two attended by a be read aloud, by the Rev. Thomas Bowdler, F.R.S. &c., author of the Churchwarden, or some other parish officer, going from house to house, Family Shakspeare,'" is in the press; and the true friends of undefiled and asking the Inhabitants to "sign against the Catholics!"-This has morality and our holy religion may shortly expect this precious addition been the case in this City, and its neighbourhood,-and in some instances to their libraries. We have the greater pleasure in communicating this where the Clergyman, either from a better feeling, or a dislike to force interesting intelligence, because we are credibly informed that it has his peculiar opinions in that unhandsome way upon his parishioners, has been a topic of sad regret at many tea-and-old-women parties, that the abstained from going round himself, the ungracious office has been per- castration of the " Decline and Fall" goes on so slowly; and we have no formed by the Sexton, or some other equally important and respectable doubt that the circumstance of the shears being engaged with Miss Harofficial of the Parish !—And yet with all this they have got but very few riette will satisfy these benevolent persons. The editor is a reverend signatures, comparatively speaking. That the table of the House of gentleman, and therefore legal, of course; we may, therefore, reasonably Commons, then, should be covered with Petitions, is not a matter of sur- expect that the unseemly anecdote of the malignant demirep writing to a prise, when we find the Clergyman of every parish exerting his influence certain "high quarter" will be omitted; it gave our loyal feelings a to get up a show of resistance to a Bill, which would, more than any other vast shock to read it. We learn that the reverend editor, with that highmeasure, conduce to the happiness, content, and prosperity of our be-minded disinterestedness which so greatly characterizes "the cloth" in loved country. It is true, to the public at large, and those who do not general, and himself in particular, has nobly refused to publish the parts know their local situation and population, the names of the little hamlets which are to be expunged in a supplement; or, as Don Juan wittily saith, and villages of Westbere, Ash, Petham, Waltham, Smeeth, Aldington, -in an appendix, &c. &c. sound as imposing as Leeds, Bolton, and Glasgow; and few there are who know, that the latter number more thousands than the above villages do scores!-and yet these Petitions will be gravely put forth as speaking the sense of the country at large !-Kent Herald. NEWSPAPER CHAT. PREVENTIVE OF Scarlet Fever.-The Lancet informs us of an important medical discovery in Germany. Extract of belladonna has been found generally to render persons insusceptible of the fever in places where it is reigning. Medical men of character and in official situations have tried the experiment in various parts of Germany, chiefly by giving the medicine to a number of children as soon as the disease appeared in the place where they lived. In nearly all the cases detailed in thirteen different reports, the children, although purposely allowed to mix with the infected patients, wholly escaped the fever; and in the few who took it, the disease appeared only in a very mild form. The quantity to be given of the extract is a twentieth part of a grain, morning and evening. 66 "To save the reader the trouble of an index." As the improved edition is published, like the purified Shakspeare and Gibbon, solely to serve "the highest purposes of virtue, morality, and religion," it will be sold at a cheap rate to persons taking a few hundreds for distribution; and it is earnestly hoped that all pious and welldisposed Christians will assist the reverend expurgator in this work of real benevolence and philanthropy: the profit and loss will be borne by the Row. CROTON OIL LOZENGES. Dr. Seiler, at Höxter, has been lately induced to try the exhibition of Croton Oil in the form of lozenges. These each lozenge contains a quarter of a drop of the oil. The lozenge is troches are made of sugar and a little mucilage of gum arabic; and allowed to be gradually dissolved in the mouth, and it is found to operate as an effectual purgative in about two hours. Three of these without producing any nausea, vomiting, or prostration of strength. taken at short intervals, by an individual, overcame a violent constipation, Journal der Practischen Heilkunde.-This appears a very excellent method for administering this valuable purgative, as the principal objections to its use are the nausea and vomiting which, by the usual mode of taking it, are occasioned.-Lancet. THE BEST MODE OF LIGHTING A FIRE.-[We believe we have before quoted a description of this process; but these domestic innovations need repeated recommendations, in order to their general adoption. The with fresh coals quite up to the upper bar but one, then lay in your following appears in the Medical Adviser of April 16.]" Fill your grate faggot of wood in the usual manner, rather collected in a mass than scattered, that a body of concentrated heat may be produced as soon as possible; over the faggot place the cinders of the preceding day, piled up as high as the grate will admit, and placed loosely in rather large fragments, in order that the draught may be free-a bit or two of fresh coal may be added to the cinders when once they are lighted, but no small coal must be thrown on at first, for the reason above stated;-and when all is prepared, light the wood, when the cinders becoming tho roughly ignited, the gas rising from the coals below, which will now be affected by the heat, will take fire as it passes through them, leaving a very small portion of smoke to go up the chimney.-The advantage of this mode of lighting a fire is, that small coal is better suited to the purpose than large, except a few pieces in front to keep the small from falling out of the grate; it may be kept in reserve, to be put on afterwards if UNGENTEEL TREATMENT.-One day, it was my hap to walk alone in the streets, where, to my hard, fortune, I met with a Turk, a galiant man he seemed to me by his habit, and saluting me in this manner, took me fast by one of my ears in his hand, and so did lead me up and down the street; and if I did chance to look sour upon him, he would give me such a wring, I did think verily he would have pulled off my ear; and this he continued with me for the space of one hour, with much company following me, some throwing stones at me, and some spitting at me; so at the last, he let me go, and because I would not laugh at my departure from him, he gave me such a blow with a staff, that did strike me to the ground. So, returning home to the consul's house, the consul's janisary seeing me all bloody, asked me how I came hurt. I told him the manner of it; he presently, in a rage, did take his staff in his hand, and bad me go with him, and show him the Turk that had used me so. In a small time, we found him sitting with his father and other gentlemen. So I did show the janisary which was he; who ran fiercely to him, and threw him on his back, giving him twenty blows on his legs and feet, so that he was not able to go or staud. He was clothed in a cloth of gold under-coat, and a crimson velvet gown; but his gay clothes could not save him from the fierceness of the Janisary's fury. And in this way our men were served divers times.-See the Travels and Adventures of the three Sherleys; a very elegant and interest-wanted. Fires lighted at eight o'clock in the morning, have been freing little book just published by Messrs. Hurst and Robinson. A SOUND ARGUMENT.-Materialism is the war-whoop of our present bigots, and every thing is to be spiritualized. The religious war-whoop was once directly the reverse. Hincmar, Archbishop of Rheims, procured the condemnation of John Icot Erigones, for maintaining that the soal was not in the body." The same Bishop, at the Council of Quercy, used a conclusive argument against his heretical antagonist, Gothescale. He induced the Council to give the poor disputant a good scourging, after which Gothescale "felt" his theology to be unsound, and that of the bishop to be convincing!-Scotsman. NEW WAY TO GET MARRIED.-At one of the parish churches in this city, yesterday se'nnight, a couple about to enter the holy bands of matrimony took a peculiar method of avoiding the gaze of curiosity. Having ascended to the roof, they descended a ladder, and without the assistance of any individual but the Clergyman and clerk, tied the indissoluble knot-men having performed the office of clerk, father, and bride-maid-Exeter Paper. EDITORIAL DUEL.-The editors of New Orleans Mercantile Advertiser and Argus, having had a dispute-editorial, met on Monday morning, 7th ulamo, to decide the affair in a duel. After the first fire they engaged with small swords, and in a few minutes both were wounded, the editor of the Argus severely, and the other slightly. An honourable reconciliation was the result.-American paper. quently known to continue burning until eleven at night, without any have in a few minutes a glowing fire:-it will sometimes be necessary thing being done to it: when apparently quite out, on being stirred, you to loosen or stir slightly the upper part of the fire, if it begins to cake; but the lower part must not be touched, otherwise it will burn away too soon." HEROISM OF WOMEN.-A remarkable instance of philanthropic heroism is recorded in the excellent Report of the Prison Discipline Society, just published. The prison at Charteris being crowded to excess, it became necessary to confine a band of robbers in the subteritself, and several died. The consequence was, that none would venture ranean vaults of a church. There, a contagious malady soon manifested to penetrate into this abyss of misery, in which the wretched prisoners juncture that Mademoiselle de Farge, braving disease and death itself, dewere daily becoming victims to disease. It was at this terrible conscended alone, carrying assistance and hope to the otherwise desperate sick. This moral heroine was thus enabled to save the lives of many unfortunates, without losing her own; and, from that period downwards, this admirable person has devoted herself to the succouring of distressed criminals. We must not, therefore, arrogate to ourselves a monopoly of benevolent feeling. Mademoiselle de Farge hasat least had an oppor tunity of displaying her moral courage in a more striking manner than Mrs. Fry, and whose labours in well-doing seem to be no less unwearied. It is calculated that not less than 500,000l. will have been paid during The Jury, after a few minutes' consultation, returned a verdict for the the present Session to solicitors and counsel, for drawing, advocating, plaintiff.-Damages, One Shilling. and opposing the different schemes brought before Parliament. Mr. Kean played Richard at Manchester, on Monday, before a clamor. ous audience. The greater part of the play was dumb show. Mr. Kean came forward afterwards, and said something which nobody could hear, but which was answered by the bravos of his friends and the hisses of his adversaries.-This is altogether pitiful work. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.-WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20. GARDNER V. WEDD AND THREE OTHERS. Mr. Sergeant WILDE moved for a rule to show cause why a general verdict should not be entered in this case. The action was tried before LETHARGY AND GALVANISM.-Hufeland, the celebrated physician, has Mr. Baron Graham. It was an action for an assault and false imprisoncaused the following article to be inserted in a Berlin paper of the 23dent, in which a verdict was found for the plaintiff, damages one farthing February: A young girl, twenty years of age, had already passed six the verdict to be entered generally, on the ground that the Learned Judge for the assault; but the imprisonment was not allowed. He now wished weeks in a sleep like death: it was with the greatest difficulty that she was made to swallow some thin gruel; her pulse could hardly be felt; gave liberty to move to that effect. The action arose from a dispute reall manner of external irritation had been applied in vain : at last I had specting tithes. The Parson and his parishioners had disagreed (neither recourse to galvanism. At first, it had but little effect; but one of the the name of the Rev. Gentleman nor his Parish were mentioned), and the conductors having been placed on the pit of the stomach, and the other Parson, to smooth the business, gave a general invitation to his parishioners in the left ear, in about two minutes, her face, which till then had been to settle all their disputes regarding the tithes over a good dinner. The pale, coloured, her eyes opened, the young girl sat upright, and pro- parishioners attended, and after dinner, instead of sober sentiments, they nounced the word Father! She has since perfectly recovered her acregaled themselves freely over the Parson's wine by drinking most uproarious toasts against the Parson and his clerk, such as “Damnation to tivity, and the lethargy has not again returned."—Journal des Debats. the Parson and his clerk." (Great laughter.) The Clerk of the parish, as in duty bound, felt offended at the extreme liberality of the toasts, sod remonstrated; on which, from words they proceeded to blows. The defendant and three others took hold of the clerk and turned him out of doors. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE.-Was the turning him out of the room false imprisonment? (Laughter.) SECRET LOVE. THE fountains smoake, and yet no flames they shewe, Starres shine all night, though undeserned by day, The trees doe spring, yet are not seene to growe, And shadowes moove, although they seeme to stay, In winter's woe is buried summer's blisse, And Love loves most when love most secret is. The stillest streames descrie the greatest deepe, 'The silent groves sweete nymphes they cannot misse, For Love loves most where love most secret is. The rarest jewels hidden virtue yeeld, And plants seeme dead, and yet they spring againe : Love loveth most when love most secret is.-JONES. LAW. COURT OF KING'S BENCH. CRIM. CON.-LORD LISMORE V. THE HON. RICHARD BINGHAM. This was an action for damages, and there was nothing remarkable in the case or the trial, except the verdict of the Jury, which was a reasonable one. It seems that in 1808, Lord Lismore married Lady Eleanor Butler (a beautiful and accomplished female, according to Mr. Brougham) the daughter of the Marquis of Ormonde, who bore him four children; when, differences arising, a separation took place, and the Lady was allowed 2,5001. a-year, though, owing to his Lordship's pecuniary difficulties, this allowance was ill paid. In 1821, Lady Lismore was living at Rome, where she became acquainted with Mr. Bingham, a younger son of Lord Luean, aged 19, who became attached to and followed her to Naples. There the intercourse complained of took place, as well as subsequently at Berne and at Paris.-Mr. BROUGHAM spoke for the Defendant, and noticed the absence of evidence as to the mode in which the parties had lived together. One witness, he said, they did screw up their courage to ask, and she replied, "Oh, Lord and Lady Lismore lived pretty much as other married people”—that was, they did not actually quarrel before their aequaintances and servants. But how did she know this? Why, she had not seen them for three years before the separation, and therefore they dared ask her. This was all the evidence of conjugal felicity which Mr. Vizard (the solicitor) a gentleman whom he (Mr. Brougham) knew was as active and intelligent in searching for evidence as Mr. Scarlet was in applying it, a laugh, from the recollection that Mr. Vizard was the attorney for the Queen]-was able to produce. The law of England allowed this action, to compensate the loss of the marriage comforts: but it was for the Jury to say whether they would give damages to a man who was so faithless a watchman over his trust, as almost to compel his wife to seek protection from another? Who had a right to complain? Lord Lismore? No! His wife whom he had cast off; and on whose name, never yet mentioned but with honour, disgrace must now be thrown. Let the Jury, then, teach a lesson to this plaintiff'; or, if it was too late for him to learn, to other husbands, that if they voluntarily abandoned their own sacred duties, the consequence must be on their own heads; and they must not expect to derive advantage from that tie which they had set at nought, and to add more money on a trial like this, to that which they received as a dowry with the wife they had vowed to cherish and to honour. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE said, that an agreement to separate did not dissolve the marriage tie, or deprive the husband of bis right to sue. Still the circumstance was deserving of consideration in their estimating the damages; as well as the relative ages of the defendant and the lady for it could scarcely be conceived that a young man of Mr. Bingham's age would venture to address a lady so much older than himself, unless he had reason to believe that his attentions would be welcome. Mr. Sergeant WILDE-No, my Lord; the false imprisonment consisted in keeping the plaintiff in a chair while they carried him out of the room by main force. The chair was in a corner of the room, and they held him there against his will and consent, while they took him up in their arms and carried him out of the house. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE.-I see no imprisonment at all in this case, and the Learned Judge who presided at the trial seems to have been of the same opinion. The good parishioners only kept the Clerk in the chair to prevent his tumbling out, while they proceeded to give him his liberty in the fresh air. (Much laughter.)—Motion refused." POLICE. BOW-STREET. Mr. John Joseph Stockdale, of Charles-street, printer and publisher to a certain self celebrated Prostitute, was on Thursday charged with having wilfully overturned a donkey-cart, the property of Anthony Creighton, poor Irish costermonger.-Mr. John Joseph Stockdale has recently set up a four-wheeled carriage of some sort (Vive la belle Harriette!) and last Saturday morning he himself was Jehu-ing this four-wheeled carriage along Lisle-street, Leicester-square-Lisle-street is celebrated for ladies of a certain caste, some of whom may hereafter be tempted to publish ; and therefore the street was judiciously chosen for a display of the new equi page. Now it so happened, that honest Anthony Creighton had been to Covent garden market that morning, and was driving his donkey cart, laden with vegetables, along Lisle-street, when he heard somebody behind“ him cry out, Hallo-you Sir! take that dung-cart out of the way!" The cry sounded to Anthony as though it came from one having authority; and, looking round, he beheld Mr. John Joseph Stockdale mounted aloft on the box of his four-wheeled carriage, and just in the act of repeating the order" Do you hear? take that dung-cart out of the way!" Anthony did as he was ordered-howbeit he felt his diguity disparaged not a little by having his equipage called a dung-cart. He instantly took his donkey by the head, and drew up close to the curb-stone on the near side; and Mr. John Joseph Stockdale as instantly assayed to pass; but somehow or other he botch'd it; whether his cattle were too full of feed, or he himself lack'd skill, there is no knowing; but so it was, that in trying to pass, he upset the cart and the donkey together, and scattered poor Anthony's baskets of green-grocery in the mud. And then, reckless of the mischief he had done, he gave his horses the whip, and drove the wheels of his four-wheeled carriage crash through the baskets of spinage, and the bundles of brocoli, cracking the cart and laming the donkey by the way; and would have given Anthony the go-by altogether, but Anthony ran after him, caught his horses by the head, and hung upon them until he obtained Mr. John Joseph Stockdale's address, in order that he might seek redress before the Magistrate.-Mr. John Joseph Stockdale, in his defence, assured the Magistrate that the donkey swerved round at the moment he was passing, and by so doing locked the wheel of the cart in the wheel of the carriage, and the cart was upset in consequence. He also affirmed that the accident would not have happened if Anthony had been with his cart at the time, but he was several yards behind at the moment.-Anthony, in reply, positively denied this; and fetched Mr.Haynes, house-agent, who very indignantly declared that he never witnessed any thing so scandalous as Mr. John Joseph Stockdale's conduct on the occasion. "The manner in which he drove through the poor man's property," said he, "was so wanton-so depraved, I may call it, that I actually blushed for him even when I heard who he was-for I did not know him before, though I have often heard of him; and I would seriously recommend him to hire a coachman as soon as possible, for I am sure he is not fit to have the care of a four-wheeled carriage himself."-It appeared, however, that Mr. Haynes did not witness the actual overthrow of the cart; and Sir RICHARD BIRNIE refused to listen to anything which happened afterwards. "Have you witnesses who saw the cart thrown LAW OF LIBEL-WESTMINSTER REVIEW. over?"-Anthony replied, he had none but God and himself; but Mr. John Joseph Stockdale tendered the evidence of his son, a lad of some sixteen years old, who deposed that he was in his father's carriage, and The importance of free discussion, though frequently dwelt that Anthony was some yards behind his cart at the time of the accident; and thereupon Sir RICHARD BIRNIE dismissed the complaint, upon the principle that the accident was attributable to his not having proper command of his donkey. ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, &c. A young lady was detected on Thursday week, in stealing a piece of yalpable lace from the counter of a linen-draper's shop in Holborn. She had made purchases to the amount of 7. and on leaving the shop, the shopnian (who had observed her put the lace inside her muff) stopped her, and desired her to walk backwards. She did so, and could not deny the theft, the property having been taken from her. She belongs to a most respectable family near Russell-square. The lady was detained, and a constable sent for, who took her in charge, but remained with her in the draper's house. upon by public writers, is seldom fully appreciated by those who, not being exposed to the danger of becoming its martyrs, erroneously consider themselves little affected by its violations. It concerns, in fact, equally every member of the community.-It is equally in value to good government; because without it good government cannot exist. Once remove it, and not only are all existing abuses perpetuated, but all which, in the course of successive ages, it has overthrown, revive in a moment, along with that ignorance and imbecility against which it is the only safeguard.-West. Rev. No. 6. p. 321. The article from which we have taken our motto-the On Tuesday, an inquisition was held on Capt. Pitcher, at Blackwall. is one which, though somewhat dry and rigid in its style, leading one of the sixth number of the Westminster ReviewIt appeared that he was crossing the river on the preceding Thursday in a wherry, which approaching too near a steam-boat, was overset, when the yet deals with first principles in such an able and intrepid Captain was drowned. A good deal of discussion arose respecting the manner, that no person, we should think, who concerns himconduct of the steam-boat's pilot, Mr. Smith, and after some deliberation, self with the good of society, can peruse it without reaping the Jury gave the following verdict :-"That the deceased, Capt. Pitcher, came by his death by accident, attended with negligence on the part of profit, and feeling interested. We must grant that the manner those persons who had the management of the Yorkshireman steam- is formal, severe, and sometimes repulsive-faults which attach packet, upon which we levy a deodand of 150%."-After the accident a themselves to, and characterise the school to which the reviewer reward of 15 guineas was offered for the recovery of his body. The belongs but the reader who can vanquish his first dislike watermen were on the search day and night, yet they did not succeed in finding it. On Sunday, Smith, the pilot, to whom some negligence is will find himself amply repaid, by the select materials with attached, was piloting a brig up the pool, when just above the Folly-house which the foundations are laid, the scientific manner in which at Blackwall, he saw a body floating on the surface of the water. Smith they are disposed, and the care and precision with which the hailed a waterman, and the body, which turned out to be that of the un-whole structure is raised. The reason is satisfied; and the fortunate Captain Pitcher, was picked up and carried ashore. We know writer has at least the moral charm of proceeding straight not if it is Smith's intention to apply for the reward. FIRES-On Thursday morning, about two o'clock, a fire commenced at forward to his subject, without shrinking or equivocation of Mr. Norton's, the Flying Horse, Blackman-street, Borough. The whole treating every question with an honest freedom. Our object of the premises were completely destroyed. Great fears were entertained at present, however, is neither to laud the reviewer, nor to for the adjoining premises; but there being a plentiful supply of water, enter into verbal criticism; but to take and insist upon an and a great number of engines, the destruction was confined to the premises and stables were it commenced. While the fire was raging exception to one of his main positions—namely, that the law there, another more alarmning commenced near Fetter-lane, Holborn, of England admits of no discussion of public men or public about half past two o'clock. It was first discovered at the house of Mr. measures-no characterizing of the one or the other, unless it Davis, perfumer. In was a considerable time before the firemen were in be on the laudatory side. We concede at once that this, with attendance, and Mr. Davis's premises were totally destroyed. The fire had also communicated to Mr. Harwood's, turner, and to Mr. Spratswill's few if any exceptions, exhibits the English law in its practical clothes warehouse. The former was wholly destroyed; the latter partly. results; we admit that the character here given of the law is Eastward the flames extended to Mr. Gray's, seedsman: and to Mr. fairly and clearly deduced from the language habitually emPratt's, trunk-maker, both of which are also destroyed. Fortunately there was but little wind, or in all probability the destruction would have been ployed by judges and lawyers; but the Reviewer concedes, immense. There are only two houses destroyed, and one injured; but at or rather proves, that the language of judges, lawyers, and the back of the houses in Holborn most of the premises are partly burnt. law-writers, is contradictory; that these persons are found at William Mead, foreman to the Hope fire-office, is most seriously injured, one time and place eulogizing free discussion, praising the by the falling out of the front of Mr. Davis's premises: he had several liberty of the press, and ascribing all our blessings to that contusions on the head, and his thigh was broken in two places. One or two others received injuries from the falling of the rubbish. About five political constitution which secures to us the one and the o'clock the progress of the flames was stayed. other; while at other times and places, or rather on the same occasions, they are sure to conclude with enouncing and enforcing maxims and principles, rules and practice, which go utterly to annihilate the freedom of which they had just called upon all who heard them to boast. The cause of this is obvious. There is law in favour of general liberty and free discussion; but there are interests hostile to both; and these being constantly in operation among law-administrators, pretexts must be found for making the law itself subservient to political purposes. It is not denied that there is such a thing as constitutional law. Under the British Constitution, which is yet an entity, every member of the state is invested with the right of addressing the Throne-of petitioning Parliament for the repeal of an old law, the enactment of a new one, and, generally, for the redress of grievances. These privileges are acknowledged by the law in all its branches. Commons is representative, not merely for the place which The law tells us, also, that every member of the House of returns him, or the persons by whom he is returned, but, virtually for every place and every person in the United Kingdom. Every one, therefore, having an interest in the conduct of every member, has right to solicit his good services, or remonstrate with him on the course which he follows in public life. All these being constitutional, are paramount rights: and the Judge who attempts, by influence, misconstruction, or misdirection, by the application of bad pre A pugilistic combat took place on Monday last, at Wendover-common. The combatants were Rawlins, a coachman, and Heathcote, a sawyer, and the match was for 57. A very hard battle of seventy rounds was fought, at the close of which Heathcote was carried away, and died in the night. BIRTH. On the 7th inst. Elizabeth Nash, wife of Thomas Nash, shoemaker, of Woo burn, was delivered of three boys. The three children did not live above half an hour; but the mother is now likely to do well, although at first in considerable peril. MARRIED. On Monday, David Salomens, Esq. of Bury-street, to Jeannette, eldest daugh ter of Solomon Cohen, Esq. of Canonbury. On the 5th inst. William Minchin, of the Inner Temple, Esq. to Eliza Brooks, only daughter of Mr. Benjamin Brooks, deceased. On Tuesday, at Chigwell, Captain Evance, R.N, to Harriet, youngest daughter On Saturday week, at Ryslip, near Uxbridge, the Right Hon. Lady Wodehouse, after a long and painful illness. J. N. Smith. On the 14th inst. in Upper Harley-street, Mary, infant daughter of Colonel On the 18th inst. at Herne-hill, Mr. Thomas Holland, of the Bank of England. On Tuesday, in Chatham-place, in the 76th year of her age, Sarah, relect of the late Richard Winstanley, Esq. street, Bedford-row. On the 18th inst. Sophia, the wife of Alexander Glennie, Esq. of Great James- Bear his own door, and was so much hurt that he expired in a few minutes. street, in the 56th year of his age. On the 17th inst. at Edinburgh, Major-General Thomas William Kerr. |