SUICIDE. A German young gentleman, named Cassmaner, aged 21, on Wednesday put a period to his life in Queen street, Golden square, by taking opiom. He had been melancholy of late, in consequence of certain religious opinions he held; and in a note he sent to a friend, he said he was tired of life. Remedies were in vain resorted to.-An inquest was held on Friday-Verdict, "Insanity."

DIED.

On the 13th inst. in Spring gardens, John Woods, Esq. solicitor, aged 77.
On the 13th inst. at his house in Beaumont street, Marylebonne, Willam
Dickenson, Esq. aged 86, formerly of Antigua.

On Saturday week, in Marsham street, Westminster, Mr J. Kennedy, at a
very advanced age. For many years he had been head door-keeper at the
House of Commons, and had amassed a considerable fortune. Mr S. Spiller is
his successor as head door-keeper, a place of great emolument.
On the 12th inst. in the 57th year of his age, Mr William Wright, of Oxford
street, upholder.

On the 12th inst. in Golden square, in his 81st year, John Willock, Esq. one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for Middlesex and Westminster. of the Bank, Leeds, listing-maker. On Tuesday week, at the advanced age of 100 years, Christopher Smirthwaite,

On Wednesday in his 43d year, Charles Cass, Esq. at the residence of his brother, Fred. Cass, Esq. of Beaulieu Lodge, Winchmore Hill. On Wednesday, in Fenchurch street, Mr John David David, aged 44. On the 16th inst. Mr W. Cary, Mathematical-instrument maker, Strand. On Saturday, the 12th inst. at his town residence, in Marsham street, Westminster, John Kennedy, Esq. of Gwanas in the County of Merioneth, i the 76th year of his age.

CHURCH ESTABLISHMENTS.

EXECUTION. On Wednesday morning, Samuel Crook, a youth only 20 years of age, was executed before Newgate. The offence for which he suffered was that of robbing his masters, Messrs Waterlow and Sanger, Bethnal green, of a quantity of manufactured silks, worth 150l. The robbery was effected by Crook admitting one or more of his companions in erime into the premises-Since his conviction his demeanour has been most exemplary. On Monday his mother and three of his sisters, and on Tuesday his father and his two brothers had their last interview. A few minutes before eight, Mr Sheriff' Kelly, with the Under-Sheriff's, Messrs Richards and Smith, arrived at the prison. As St Paul's clock struck eight, the prisoner was brought from his cell; he walked very feebly along; his youth and horror-stricken countenance deeply affected the bystanders. While the preparation for the scaffold was going on, the Rev. Mr Isaac implored him to put his trust in Jesus, who had suffered on the Whether it be that souls are more precious in some councross for sinners. He shook hands with the Sheriff, sucked an orange tries than in others; or that they are harder to save in the which Mr Baker presented to him, and was led through the dreary passages West, than in the East, or in the North, we cannot tell; but to the lobby at the foot of the scaffold, supported by two Ministers; here the poor creature reclined his head upon the shoulder of Mr Isaac, and certain it is that few things are so unequally paid in the diflooking upwards, said, "I am going to glory-in Jesus I put my trust-ferent parts of these realms, as the services of those who are we shall meet again." The Rev. Divines embraced him, and took their employed in the great work of human salvation. So far is farewell, commending his soul to God. He was then led up to the drop, the price of their pious labours from being regulated by any and in a few minutes, during which he could scarcely support himself, was Jaunched into eternity.-Mr Under-Sheriff Richards was so deeply af- reference to "supply and demand," that it seems to invert fected that he was nearly fainting, and burst into a flood of tears, in which the most simple axiom in political economy, and to be highest state he was fed away.' when the market is most overstocked. The greater the glut, Another of those melancholy accidents arising out of the careless habits of sporting gentlemen, has just taken place at Higham, the seat of the dearer the commodity! Nay, strange and incredible as it Francis Bentworth, Esq. near Ashby-de-la-Zouch. As Mr Hointrough may appear, clerical labourers are actually remunerated in an was passing through the small gate that leads from the pleasure grounds inverse ratio to the value set upon their services !-They are into the wood walks, the trigger of his gun was struck by a projecting paid most highly, where they are held most cheap; and piece of the latch, and the contents lodged in bis head. He expired be- derive the lowest reward where they are most highly esteemed!

fore he could be taken back to the house.

On Monday night, in Farnham lane, leading from Bagshot Heath, a gentleman of the name of Frimley, together with his wife and a little boy, returning home from Wingfield, Berkshire, in a single horse chaise, got out of the track of the heath near the Serpent public-house, and the chaise and horse went down a precipice of fifteen feet and upwards. Mrs F. was killed on the spot, the boy had his arm broken, and the chaise dashed in pieces, but Mr Frimley escaped unhurt.

round.

It may be, that, in this method of stating the matter, we are confounding cause and effect. It may be, that "where the carcass is, there will the ravens be also." We will endeavour to illustrate our position, however, even if we should leave to our readers the task of reconciling the paradoxes which it involves.

FATAL JEALOUSLY.-Two young farmers met at the Queen's Head, In Ireland, the spiritual superintendance of about half a Hollyport, three miles from Henley, on Sunday, to pay their respects over their ale to a young widowed lady, of whom they were both admi-million of Protestant souls costs nearly as much as that of rers, when a quarrel arising, Phillips challenged his rival, Jennings, to nine millions of such souls costs in England. The nine fight, and the next morning they met by appointment, and fought a hard millions in England require, it appears, twenty-six Archbattle, which ended by the death of Phillips, from a fall in the 40th bishops and Bishops to watch over their eternal welfare; and ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.-On Wednesday night about eleven o'clock, the the half million in Ireland absolutely require twenty-two !— watchmen's attention in Whitechapel road was attracted by a very res-"There is something in this more than natural, if philosophy pectable young man in appearance lying on the road in a state of intoxi- could find it out." Should the Irish Protestants increase in cation; he was conveyed to the nearest watch house, where he slept for numbers, four new Bishops may, we suppose, be added as several hours; the night constable (Plunkett) about four went into the lock-up room, to see whether the young man had recovered, when, to his necessity shall require; and such necessity would, no doubt, astonishment, he found him on the ground weltering in his blood; he speedily arise. If it were reasonable to judge of the duties was instantly placed in a chair and medical assistance proeured, when it which they perform from the amount of money which they was discovered that he had stabbed himself with a penknife under his receive, we should conclude that Irish Bishops are vastly right ear; the knife was afterwards found grasped in his hand. The over-worked. The ESTATES of five of them (not to say any blood having been stopped, and the necessary restorative applied, he recovered sufficiently to give his name and address, and that he resided in thing of their other sources of revenue), are capable of yieldthe Commercial road. On being questioned as to the cause of his coming an income nearly twice as great as that which rewards mitting so rash an act, he said that notwithstanding he was only 25 years of age, and in good circumstances, he was convinced he had lived long enough, and that he was tired of his existence. He was, on having fur ther recovered, conveyed to his lodgings in a hackney coach, attended by a professional gentleman, where he now remains in a precarious state.

MARRIED.

On the 12th inst. at Stapleton, Richard Elwes, Esq. of Whise Parsonage, to
Catharine, eldest daughter of Isaac Elton, Esq. of Stapleton house, Glocester.

On the 12th inst. at St Pancras New Church, Garrett Dillon, of Fitzroy street,
Esq. to Elizabeth Frances, eldest daughter of John Plura, Esq. of Bath.
On the 15th inst. at St Andrew's, Holborn, the Rev. Robert Montgomery,
Rector of Holcot, Northamptonshire, to Jane, daughter of Thomas Walker, Esq.

of John street, Bedford row.

On the 12th inst. at St Giles's in the Fields, S. P. Vincent, Esq. of Lincoln's inn fields, to Elizabeth Mary, daughter of the late David Williams, Esq. of Pool house, Carmarthenshire. On Tuesday, at St George's, Bloomsbury, Robert Gibson, Esq. of Torrington square, to Sarah, youngest daughter of the late Edw. Hill, Esq. of Blackheath. On Tuesday, at Croydon, J. J. Moffatt Bond, Esq. of Clapham common, to Mary, youngest daughter of the late John Elmsley, Esq. Chief Justice of Lower On Thursday, at Wandsworth, Corbyn Lloyd, Esq. of Lombard street, banker, to Emily, youngest daughter of John Falconer Atlee, Esq. of West Hall, WandsOn Thursday, at St Martin's-in-the-Fields, William, eldest son of William Row, Esq. of St Thomas Apostle, to Sarah, eldest daughter of Henry Winchester, Esq. of Buckingham street, Adelphi, and Hawkhurst, Kent,

Canada.

worth.

the watching, the fasting, and the praying, of the whole twenty-six who buffet Satan on behalf of the nine millions of English Lutherans! This disproportion betwixt the expenses of England and Ireland, in their ecclesiastical establishments must, especially if the disparity in their Protestant populatic: be taken into the comparison, be sufficiently obvious an startling-but we have yet a stronger contrast to oppose to the cost of Episcopacy in both countries.

The population of Scotland adhering to the "Kirk," may be taken at about 1,423,467 souls: and these are shepherded without the aid of one Bishop's Crosier! The Scotch are preverbially a religious, a moral, and, withal, a thrifty peop That they are the latter may, in some degree, be ascribab to their frugality in church matters, as well as in others; br that they should be religious and moral with less than twent two Archbishops and Bishops-nay, without even ONEseems just as improbable as that a nation should be ric without an enormous debt; prosperous, without excessiv taxation; or peaceable, without legalized murder!

There are, in Scotland, only 950 parochial clergymen;
who are paid at an average of not more than 2751. per
annum each. The number of parishioners to each, upon the
average, is about 1,500; while in Ireland, there are parishes
paying thousands of pounds to their rectors, which scarcely
contain ten Protestant souls each for them to solace, or to
instruct! If the purity and usefulness of religion may be
estimated by its expensiveness, Irish protestantism is, incom-
parably, the most enviable under the Sun. The English
"establishment" stands next in the scale: and the Scotch
"Kirk" skulks at an almost unfathomable distance below
both. We need not point out to our observant readers, in
which of the three kingdoms the "established" clergy are
most beloved and revered; because it is notoriously that, in
which they have the largest quantum of duty to perform, and
the smallest remuneration to receive. We have no wish to
see the priesthood of any sect or persuasion reformed back to
the primitive poverty of the Apostles. We shall shew, one of
these days, if we have not already shewn, that we are not
such egregious levellers. We revere the doctrines of HIM
who taught that "the labourer is worthy of his hire;"
we would make the worth of the labourer, in some degree, the
criterion of that "hire." We would not "muzzle the ox
that treadeth out the corn;" but we are loth that one should
devour more than twenty can "tread out." If, however, we
were disposed to estimate the maximum of public good by the
minimum of clerical wages, we might go much further than
we have gone. We might point to a Christian people who
have neither Bishops, nor Priests, nor tithes, nor Easter
offerings, nor gorgeous temples, nor imposing ceremonies;
who are wealthy without ostentation, beneficent without
parade, and frank without arrogance; and whose lives and
conversation are consecrated to virtue, peace, and simplicity.
Turn your eyes to this people (who are too well known to
need a designation) ye mitred heads, and plethoric pluralists!
See them

"Through the calm, sequester'd vale of life
Pursue the even tenor of their way,"

but

and wonder, if you can, that your own agrarian imposts, and conventional dominations, should cease to be borne with patience, or bowed down to with reverence of heart!-Hereford Independent.

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REMINISCENCES of MICHAEL KELLY, of the King's Theatre; A DICTIONARY of QUOTATIONS from the BRITISH POETS.

No. 929. MONDAY, NOV. 28, 1825.

HE POLITICAL EXAMINER.

Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.-POPE.
IAT HAS MR PLUNKETT DONE FOR IRELAND?

ed in their solution.

1 to thank him.

mixed with the Catholic peasantry, and we have known Catholic gentlefolk who would not venture to express an opinion unfavourable to Tythes and Church rates, chuckle when they saw Mr HUME belabouring them and Mr PLUNKETT together. Well then, the Irish Attorney-General has fought for that Tythe on which his children are ber earnestness we ask, what has Mr PLUNKETT done for the fattening, and he has calumniated the motives of those that opposed lics-for the people of Ireland? What has he done to entitle Deshure and Carriganimma, thank him, do thank him! But he has him. Parents, and brothers of those who were sabred or hanged at preeminently to their applause? Has he spontaneously ori- advocated Emancipation. He has, we admit it; and if he had add'or worthily defended any one measure of practical benefit to These are questions which we have put to ourselves, and the vocated it on proper grounds, we would have given credit for his exparson-feeding, tythe-paying people of Ireland are deeply in-ertions. But can we forget Mr PLUNKETT's own declaration, that he supported Emancipation because that measure would prop the Church Establishment, and that if it could endanger that Church Establishment, meaning thereby Tythes and Church rates, he would be the last long as the poor Catholic has to complain of the Church, and the rich man to advocate it? We understand Mr PLUNKETT perfectly well. So Catholic of the State, so long will they be united, and by their union the abuses of Church and State will be endangered; but conciliate the solved; and the other party, even though they should be the people, one, suppose the rich, by Emancipation or Place-the Union is disgo unnoticed and unredressed. If Mr PLUNKETT think that he can make a perpetual settlement for the Tythe System by Emancipation, and such be its result, Emancipation is no blessing, and the man who would employ it to perpetuate mischief, is not entitled to regard. It is curious to observe how well suited the accompaniments of the late Emancipation Bill were to Mr PLUNKETT's views. The 40s. freeholders, who feel the weight of the Church Establishment most oppressive, were to cease as a political body, and to lose all power of made by paying 1s. 8d. in the pound as payment to the Catholic enforcing their claims for justice, and a feint of retribution was to be Clergy. The conduct of the Emancipator in the pension question PLUNKETT thought that there was fairness in the remonstrance of the was most insolent to the Irish, or more unjust to the Empire.. If Mr Irish, that fourteen should not be forced to contribute to support the clergy of one, why presume to compromise 3,000,000l. with 200,000/ Again, if he thought there was unfairness, why sanction the encrease of taxation? Does he think that England is not taxed heavily enough as it is? Does he think that if war should unfortunately arise between this and another country, we shall not have a sufficient outlet for our resources independently of his new, and, in the present supposition, unreasonable expenditure?

we understand the Leaders of the Irish Catholics rightly, the nce of the Catholic Association was an object dear to the people land. If we know anything of human feeling or political nce, the Irish Tythe System is an intolerable oppression. cipation has been always the aim of the Catholics. Let us see the conduct of Mr PLUNKETT has been on these heads, and er the Catholics, as straight-forward, plain-thinking men, are Catholic Association, according to a thousand resolutions of al, County and Parochial Catholic Meetings, was everything great ood. It was a highly useful and necessary body. It combined the n cries of Irishmen into one loud call for constitutional liberty. It i useful information among the Catholics. It was, in a word, of paramount utility to Ireland, that even its warmest advocates inequal to its praise. Now it does not matter whether all or f these assertions were true. The Catholics made them, and ent a deputation to England to confirm them upon oath. Who, <, crushed that Association? Who crushed it, and by an act, of the deputation said, which would disgrace Constantinople or s? Was it not Mr PLUNKETT? He, the man whom they now ze as their meritorious and constitutional advocate? If the nce of such a body in Ireland as the Catholic Association, was a og inferior only to emancipation, he who could destroy its exiswithout securing emancipation,—is he an enemy or a friend? of the Irish consistents may say that, on that score, he is neither. neither, perhaps, was the Association a blessing, nor its abo

an evil.

come now to the Irish Tythe System. We shall not speak of we feel, neither can language compete with its enormity. It is omaly in the ecclesiastical history of the world. A hideous f flesh and blood, animated by the spirit of hypocrisy and in-Good GOD! that thy creatures should rot in hovels, and e compelled to build temples which they never enter,-—that ould pine in hunger and nakedness, and yet be bayoneted, if amper not a priesthood, whom they believe you never sent is system should have lasted for centuries, and that men, prothemselves honest, should be found to advocate it! Is not the System the great and crying evil of Ireland? Is it not the tribute which an oppressed and an outraged people pay to their asters? We may be told that the Irish people have never heir voices against it. Poor people! The penal laws and the Is of the parson left them not the means of education, and e they indited no petitions to Parliament, but the story of the nd Moritts and the Hares, and the annals of the White Boy, that they hate it" even unto death." It is true, Mr JOSEPH receives no votes of thanks from the people of Ireland ; but let infer thence that his motions are not anxiously expected, and with satisfaction. We know the Irish well, and we declare it ur decided opinion, that let their silence proceed from what may, JOSEPH HUME is the idol of their hearts. He is the l righteous man. But who has said that the Tythe System of It is curious to observe the description of persons who have been must live for ever? Who has said, with the famine of 1821, proposed a vote of thanks to him at the Catholic Association, and most prominent in lauding Mr PLUNKETT. Mr Counsellor WOLFE pestilence of 1817, and the spectre of justice and the blood illing and the killed before him, that that system of abomi- Mr Counsellor HoWLEY at the Munster Provincial Meeting. Now the cement of the United Kingdom and the stay of the we have no doubt but those gentlemen think most favourably of the ? Who is it that confounded the claims of the landlord with politics of the Irish Attorney-General. Mr Counsellor WOLFE has rtion of the Irish parson, and when an honest senator de- got a silk gown, and Mr Counsellor HowLEY is, we presume, in justice for those who had none to speak for them, shouted expectancy. But a silk gown to every Catholic Barrister in Ireland tion?" Come, did Mr PLUNKETT verily believe that the abo- would be no national advantage. It may warm the lawyer's limbs, but the Tythe System would be spoliation? If he does, there is still starve and go forth in nakedness; he would betake himself to the the wretch who starves and pays the tythe and the church-rate would atholic peasant in Ireland who would not be guilty of the spo-pest-house (as the Irish witness De la Cour said) for a home, or fling o-morrow, nor a Catholic gentleman whose conscience would him to punish the offenders. This we know well. We have them into an Assize Dock for transportation and subsistence.-From a Correspondent.

Mr PLUNKETT's abilities as a senator, or his argumentative powers as an orator, do not enter into the present enquiry. They are confessedly high, and we say he has not employed them for his country.

But men who will not enter the lists on particulars will still deal in vague general assertions, and ask, has not Ireland assumed, within the last few years, a more imposing attitude in the empire, and has office? not this change occurred during Mr PLUNKETT's connexion with We admit that Ireland has assumed a more imposing attitude, and we thank God for it; but we deny that such is, the effect Captain Rock, and the summer of starvation, and the English Press, of Mr PLUNKETT's politics, or Lord WELLESLEY'S administration. those were the circumstances which created a moral change in the English mind, and that change gave the lift to Ireland. We ask any Irishman who approved of the Catholic Association, or collected of Mr PLUNKETT that cheered him? or, did he not feel he did or contributed a farthing of the Catholic Rent, was it the countenance what Mr PLUNKETT condemned? We utterly disapprove the attributing to others that good which we have effected for ourselves. The practice is indicative of a degraded mind, or leads to it, and it is seldom done when the people are concerned, that the particular individual who does it has not some corrupt motive behind him.

LITERARY NOTICE.

us to be the principal defect, looking to the article novelty. comic parts of Don Guzman and Flora, in the hands of Dowios Miss KELLY, were rendered extremely rich. The humour of i latter, when she discovers the Marquis in the box and contrives tor THE celebrity of the Baron de la Motte Fouqué in a peculiar pro- Nicholas into the same awkward situation, levied largely on the r vince of romance is not unknown to the English reader, by the trans- of the audience; as did also the garden scene, when she is obliged Tated stories of Undine and Sintram. Both of these have obtained Don Guzman to sing the concerted signal to attract the Marquis. admiration from their originality, in a certain wild and misty manner the latter occasion, her burst of exultation when she finds that of handling, wherein, to borrow the language of Milton, more is mistress has, after all, escaped, was a truly constitutional exple meant than meets the ear." The Magic Ring is a still more elabo- of the heartfelt mirth of an Abigail who exults in the trickery as me rate tale of a similar description, in which it is obvious that the author from feeling as interest. HARLEY has scarcely scope for his hum has shadowed out a portion of the European social and intellectual in Nicholas; but, as usual, was always whimsical and diverting. progress, with much of the mysterious dreaminess which forms at RUSSELL was the opposing valet Sebastian, and enacted the selde once the charnt and the perplexity of his performances. Nothing can varying varlet of that description in Spanish with tolerable breadth less resemble the trite and formal mode of allegory than the tale be- humour. Upon the whole, the piece went off lightly and favour fore us, which is eternally piquing us into a suspicion that we have A few voices were heard in opposition at the close, but they found out something, without allowing us much of certainty on the sub- drowned by a great majority, and the piece was given out for rep ject:-an artifice, by the way, which keeps up no slight degree of tition on the next evening. It will probably take its turn through interest and attention. The ground-work of the mystery, in the pre-season, which we take for granted is all that has been expected fra sent instance, is founded on the historical progress and settlement of it. the Normans in the various quarters of Europe, including Greece; and COVENT GARDEN. even in Palestine and the East. With this clue, which after a while The Road to Run was performed at this theatre on Friday, w is so far obvious, much of the wild adventure may be rendered com- little novelty in the caste; for although Mrs GLOVER is new in patible; but we suspect that a far deeper consideration than readers character of the Widow Warren at this house, her performance of it of romances are usually willing to bestow, is necessary to trace the the Haymarket has been greeted with great and merited applaa multifarious figure and allusion contained in a story, in which, accord- Her reading is more refined and less disgusting than the usual ote ing to the opinion of the Translator, the Author has, in every part of and certainly to the advantage of the character of Young Dorns the incident and machinery, intended to signify some reality or Miss GOWARD, in Sophia, was the only novelty; she exhibis other. The result is a mixture of bizarrie and eccentricity in the somewhat too much point and too little simplicity for Sophia, who n character and adventure, which would scarcely be palatable if regarded speak plainly, is neither more nor less than a fool. The play wa as mere fanciful mental wanderings; but which, as the case stands, followed by a new one-act piece, entitled The Scape Goat. An immediately taxes ingenuity, and, as we said before, holds up pedantic tutor is entrusted with the education of a young man in a attention to some singularly wild and shadowy imaginings. In other retired country mansion, and supposes him interested only by r respects, the tale, like the Fairy Queen, assumes the garb of chivalry, guages and the mathematics; whereas the hopeful youth is secrety and is composed, in the original, in what the Translator calls the old married, and possesses a wife and child, who are concealed in te Frankish tournure of language, which is elegantly rendered into house on the arrival of his father. The good-hearted pedant, dram elegant correspondent English of similar antique construction. in to assist in their concealment, is, through the revengeful prying The title of the tale is taken from a Magic Ring, apparently, to a female servant, made the "Scape Goat." or object of all the sas ats, intended to typify practical science and its consequences, especi- cions which arise. FARREN was pleasant enough in this character, a ally the advancement of commerce, with its almost magical command was Miss JONES in Betty Maggs, the bustling female servant w of worldly advantages. This ring is eternally changing hands, and produces the catastrophe. Her sister, Miss A. JONES-a first a there is much chivalric adventure to recover it. Religion and Super-pearance-performed the youthful wife, who had little to do or sa stition are also personified, while the general social and religious pro- with unassuming ease and simplicity. As a whole, this trifle is pas gress of Europe, especially as connected with the northern stock, is able, but not very good; the style of tuition alluded to, is, in fact, obviously the nucleus of much of the invention. After this source of funct; and the humour always appears forced when there is a lack interest, the attraction of this curious tale consists in its fine preserva- verisimilitude. The ayes however had it. tion of the sentiment and manners, or imputed sentiment and manners, of the age of chivalry, which-with the exception of a certain romantic costume, at a distance appearing at once gorgeous and graceful-is probably nearly as visionary in its pretensions as the Arcadia of the poets. For what it has assumed to be in these cases, however, we willingly take it, and therefore have felt much amused by the fine exposition of knightly rule and courtesy displayed in these volumes, the translation of which is truly characteristic and elegant. Aware, however, that this sort of viand is by no means adapted for every palate, our recommendation of it is chiefly confined to those only who have detected within themselves a disposition to indulge in the day-dreams of the most volatile and airy-clad fiction. To such, the concluding words of the author's address to the reader will be found very appropriate :

The Magic Ring, a Romance, from the German of the Baron de la
Motte Fouqué.

"In the following pages I lay before thee the best fruits of those hours when my fancy is most free and exalted. On this, as a true knight, I pledge my word of honour. And now I bid thee heartily welcome to the groves and the meadows, the battles and festivals, the joyous weddings or mournful obsequies, which our story may unfold."

To conclude: our readers may be satisfied that the Magic Ring is no common production, and if, as a species, the style of its romance may not be relished very widely, we should exceedingly doubt the imaginative faculty of any one who did not pronounce it to be the fruits of a highly creative power, elegantly but peculiarly directed.

THEATRICAL EXAMINER.

Q.

DRURY LANE On Wednesday evening, an adaptation of Mrs INCHBALD'S Midnight Hour was got up at this house with the introduction of music from various composers, arranged and selected by Mr T, COOKE. It was spirited and tolerably appropriate, especially in the songs given to Mr HORNE and Miss CUBITT, who performed the Marquis and Julia. That the greater part of the introduction was too familiar, seemed to

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AWKWARD EFFECTS OF IRRITABILITY IN A JUDGE

last, in the Court of Common Pleas. No great novelty this, we co
Mr Justice PARK made himself somewhat ridiculous on Monday
fess; but the occasion was a little out of the common way. In a cas
of justification of bail, one of two gentlemen who stood up in the
witness-box to be sworn, when that not very delicate article, a Bol
which has been fingered and slobbered in the Court for perhaps t
or twenty years, was placed in his hands, put it gently to his lips,
virtue of the oath depended at all on the quantity of calf covered
as to touch as small a part of it as possible, not conceiving that the
his mouth. Mr Justice PARK however, who happened to be looki
that way, spying, we suppose, a famous opportunity of signalizing bu
manner which have long distinguished him, with—" That won't da
zeal in behalf of legal Orthodoxy, broke out in that peculiar tone as
handed the book to the Gentleman, who repeated the gentle
Sir; that won't do!" The Officer of the Court thereupon aga
homage as before. Some words then passed between Mr Just
PARK and the Chief Justice (BEST) inaudible to the spectators:
former seemed to be vindicating his interference, for he was heard a
say," there was great flippancy of manner." Now, unfortunate
for the Learned Judge, there was not the slightest flippancy of ma
ner in the proceeding: the party certainly did not kiss the binding
the book as if it were a lady's cheek, but he touched it with his mo
and went through the formula with perfect decorum. It would sus
puzzle even our testy Justice to pronounce what is the precise det
of labial empressement necessary to constitute a good and sufficie
oath. For our parts, we should like nothing better than to have be
point mooted some day; if a wag of a witness would "kiss the book"
in an ambiguous fashion, poor Justice PARK would be sure to fly
like a parched pea, and might easily be worked up into suffic
irritation to reject the testimony; the case might be brought beat
the Court by a special motion; and an interesting argument wo
be held before the four Judges upon the important question, whet
simple contact between the book and the lips constitute a sound