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be consistent in supporting this measure. He could not see how the House should refuse to make it legal to sell game, and yet hesitate to punish the buying of it. The laws under this head had this peculiarity, that it was not considered the least impeachment to a man's honour or morality to buy game: Several Members concurred in reprobating the system of game laws altogether. The House divided, for the second reading, 116, against it, 21. read a second time.

CUTLERY TRADE BILL.

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Lord Lascelles wished to withdraw the bill he had brought in for regulating the cutlery trade, and accordingly moved that the order of the day for its second reading should be discharged.

Mr. Robinson expressed a hope that the bill the Noble Lord proposed to bring in would not be liable to the objections that were applicable to that now in the House. He should be ready to give the subject his best attention, but at present could not promise his support to the new bill.

The order of the day was then discharged, and Lord Lascelles obtained leave to bring in another bill on the same subject. He afterwards brought in the bill, which was read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time on the 29th, and to be printed.

THE REGENCY AMENDMENT BILL Was read a second time in the House of Lords on the 21st. It proposes that the Queen shall have the nomination of additional members of council, and that the King's person shall be intrusted to the council, not as directed by the act of 1811, by which, in the case of a dissolution, the old Parliament is to meet forthwith, but they are to have the care of the Royal person till the new parliament shall determine otherwise; and the only provision for shortening that period is, that ministers may issue a proclamation to assemble the parliament in fourteen days (after the elections are made). This bill may be regarded as indicative of the intention of the Ministers to dissolve Parliament, for otherwise one of its provisions would be altogether unnecessary. It is reported that a prorogation will take place on or before the 6th of next month, and in case the present Bill shall have passed both Honses, a dissolution may be expected almost immediately after.

Same day Mr. Brougham announced his intention to bring in a Bill in the present or next Session of Parliament, to prevent the increase of Poors' Rates in the first instance, and subsequently to narrow their limits, and at the same time to equalize the burdens.

DOMESTIC OCCURRENCES.

LONDON.

Saving Banks.-By the list of Saving Banks printed in pursuance of an order of the House of Commons, it appears that the number of these institutions registered under the Act, down to 11th March 1818, is 164. April 30. The scholars of the City of London National Schools underwent a public examination in the Egyptian Hall, in the presence of Her Majesty, several branches of the Royal Family, the Lord Mayor, and a great number of the nobility and persons of distinction.

May 2. A meeting was held at the Freemason's Tavern, for the purpose of raising a fund for the support of the National School Society; it was attended by many of the nobility and clergy, and the chair was occupied by the Duke of York. At

the conclusion books were opened, and a large sum immediately subscribed.

Methodist Missions.-4th. The sitting commenced at the chapel in the City Road, Thomas Thompson, Esq. M. P. of Hull, being called to the chair. At five o'clock in the evening, the business not being completed, and intelligence having been received during the meeting, that Sir Alex. Johnstone, late Governor of Ceylon, who had been a father to the mission in that island, had arrived in England, the assembly adjourned to the 7th. Much interesting information was developed in the course of the sittings, and the utility of the missions strongly advocated. The number of their missionaries had increased to 106, besides six in Ireland. With respect to the Society's funds, the income of last year amounted to £17,227.

5th. The Church Missionary Society held their annual meeting in Freemason's Hall. Long before the chair was taken, the Hall was crowded to excess, and many were obliged to retire for want of room. At two o'clock the Right Hon. Lord Gambier took the chair, accompanied by the venerable Bishop of Norwich, the Bishop of Gloucester, Messrs. Wilberforce, Stephen, Admiral Saumarez, Rev. Dr. Thorpe, and others. From the statement of accounts, it appeared that the increase this year was £3944, and the whole revenue £23,944. At the conclusion of the meeting, the whole assembly stood up, and joined in singing the 117th psalm" From all that dwell below the skies," &c. The whole had a most solemn effect. The chairman then left the chair, and in retiring, a most liberal collection was made at the door.

Yorkshire Society.- May 6. The anniversary meeting of the Yorkshire Society, for the maintenance, clothing, and education of the children of indigent Yorkshire parents, resident in London, was held at the London Tavern. Upwards of 400 gentlemen sat down to a sumptuous dinner on the occasson: His Royal Highness the Duke of York, who has been graciously pleased to become the patron, was in the chair. Among the company present, were the Right Hon. John Beckett, Sir Henry Wilson, Knt., Sir Henry Ibbetson, Bart., Anthony Brown, Esq. M.P., Aldermen Scholey, Bridges, &c. &c. A handsome subscription was entered into, and amounted to upwards of 6501. being nearly three times more than had been received on any former occasion.

14. The Old Bailey Sessions closed, when 16 persons received sentence of death, 5 to

be transported for life, 11 for 14 years,

and 59 for 7 years.

Arthur Thistlewood was found guilty in the Court of King's Bench of sending a challenge to Lord Sidmouth, with intent to provoke a dnel; the prisoner declined making any defence.

14th. The British and Foreign Bible Society held their fourteenth anniversary in Freemason's Hall. At half past nine, the doors were opened, and by ten the Hall was completely crowded. At twelve the Right Hon. Lord Teignmouth took the chair, and opened the business of the meeting. The report was read by the Rev. Wm. Dealtry, and was truly gratifying to the feelings of all who are anxious for the spread of the gospel. In Europe, in Asia, in Africa, and America, societies

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.£71,099 17 The meeting was successively addressed, by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Lord Bishop of Cloyne, the American Ambassador, the Earl of Harrowby, Admirals Sir J. Saumarez, Rev. Ralph Wardlaw, Bishops of Norwich and Gloucester, the Rev. Robert Newton, the Ambassador of the Prince of Hesse Homberg, Sir Thomas Ackland, Dr. Ebenezer Henderson, John Thornton, esq. the treasurer to the society, the Lord Bishop of Derby, W. Wilberforce, Esq. the Rev. John Owen, Rev. Professor Farish, Lord Gambier, John Haldane, esq. Rev. Dr. Thorpe, the Lord Bishop of Cloyne, and the Chairman.

15. The Hibernian Society assembled at the City of London Tavern, at six o'clock in the morning, and after breakfasting together, Samuel Mills, esq. was called to the Chair. The debt of the Society, which amounted last year to £1600, was now reduced to £700. The meeting was attended by many persons of the first respectability, and the cause of Hibernian education advocated in a most able and eloquent man

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The Protestant Society for the Protection of Religious Liberty assembled on the following day, at an early hour, and recollections of the interesting proceedings at the former annual meetings of this Society assembly to attend this Anniversary. The induced a very numerous and respectable influence, from Ireland and Scotland, as assembly included persons of considerable well as from England and Wales; and more than 100 ministers of different denominations concurred to evince their common interest in the maintenance of the rights of conscience, which that institution was calculated to protect. His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex presided at this meeting.

15. Verdicts were this day found in the court of Exchequer against ten individuals for the sale of a pernicious substitute for tea, composed of the leaves of the black and white thorn boiled, dried on copper plates and coloured with verdigrease, logwood, and Dutch pink! In one case the penalties amounted to £840.

Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb.-13. The Duke of Gloucester presided at the anniversary dinner of this institution, at the City of London Tavern. His Royal Highness was supported by the Marquis of Buckingham and other high and respectable philanthropic characters. The Noble Marquis was particularly eloquent in setting forth the advantages of the establishment: to the supporters and friends of it, he set the best example, by an additional donation of fifty guineas for himself, and twenty for the Marchioness. Between eight and nine hundred pounds were reported as the receipts of the evening. Disuse of Fetters.- It is intended, throughout the whole of the metropolis, to discontinue the use of fetters upon those prisoners who stand for trial. The change first took place in the New Prison, at Clerkenwell, and the example has been followed at Newgate. Those who have been convicted will be ironed in the usual manner.

GENERAL.

Forged notes.-Birmingham meeting.— April 22nd, a numerous and respectable meeting of the inhabitants of Birmingham took place at the Public Office, on the subject of the alarming increase of Forgeries on the Bank of England; and to adopt such measures as may have a tendency to call the attention of Parliament to the sub

ject, for the purpose of remedying the evil. Wm. Cotterell, Esq. High Bailiff, took the chair, and after reading the requisition calling the meeting, the Rev. J. H. Spry, in a perspicuous and forcible speech, moved a series of resolutions, enforcing the imperious necessity of such an immediate alteration in the style of engraving the Bank of England notes, as may prevent those numerous trials and frequent executions which are occasioned by the present extreme facility of fabrication, and which are alike shocking to the feelings of the humane, and a disgrace to the character of the country. The resolutions and petitions to Parliament were carried unani.. mously.

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Liverpool.-Eleven hundred and fifty vessels have entered the port of Liverpool, from the first day of January last, to the 31st of March. }

Church Missionary Society. The Anniversary of the Bristol Church Missionary Association, has just been held in that place, and owing to some recent circumstances was very large, and attended by an uncommon assemblage of talent and worth. The whole amount of subscrip

tions, &c. of the year, was £2,143. 10s.ild. A powerful impression was made on the meeting, by the secretary of the parent society stating, that "he had received information which he doubted not would surprise and delight his hearers, which was, that the church itself, as a church, would shortly be called upon to second their efforts-that it was intended to place £5000 at the disposal of the Bishop of Calcutta-and that the clergy, as a body, would be recommended, not commanded, to urge the cause of missions." The collections made in the rooms after the sermons, &c. at the anniversary, amounted to upwards of £1200.

Attack on the Mail.-On Sunday morn. ing, May 10, the Worcester mail was attempted to be robbed in Feather-bed-lane, near Stokenchurch Wood, on its way to Oxford. Two persons climbed up the coach, and attacked the coachman and guard with bludgeons, and others of the gang threw stones into the coach, in which were four passengers. The guard seized his pistols, and attempted to discharge them, but they flashed in the pan. The guard at length succeeded in dislodging his opponent, and discharged his blunderbuss at the party, which appeared to consist of six or seven persons; with what effect is not at present known. The coachman then drove off at full speed, and left the villains behind.

New Plough.-A farmer at Ringway, in Lancashire, has completed a running plough, on which are a pair of rollers. At one operation it ploughs two furrows, laying one to the right and the other to the left, and rolls two half-hutts, leaving the surface smooth and even for the scythe.

bance took place at this establishment on Winchester College.-- A serious disturthe 7th inst. in the afternoon of which day tion of a few college prefects, armed themall the young gentlemen, with the excep selves with sticks, stones, &c. got possession of the keys, and locked themselves within the college walls.-The Warden, Fellows, and Masters having refused to treat with them on any other terms than an unconditional return to their duty, they, at ten o'clock next morning, delivered up their sticks, opened the gates, and went to their respective quarters. The ringleaders, conscious of their demerits, and aware of the certain punishment which awaited them, had exacted a promise from their deluded school-fellows, that they would share in their punishment 3 F

whatever it might be. When, therefore, twelve ringleaders had been expelled, many of the others accompanied them into the town. The greater majority, however, soon returned, though we understand that a few of the commoners proceeded to their respective homes. Of these latter the greater part have been since brought back by their friends, and we are happy to say that order is now re-esta blished.

Important Decision to the Catholics of Ireland. In the case "the King, at the prosecution of John Cole, v. the Corporation of Dublin," which came on the 13th ult, in the Court of King's Bench, Dublin, the Court gave judgment, and directed that a mandamus should issue requiring the Corporation to admit and swear in the prosecutor as a member, although a Roman Catholic.

Northern Circuit.-The Report of the Select Committee of the House of Commons on the Administration of Justice upon the Northern Circuit, has been printed. It recommends, that for the greater facility and dispatch of business, such measures should be taken as would divide the present Northern Circuit into two separate circuits, the one comprehending the counties of Westmoreland, Lancaster, and Cumberland; and the other including York, Northumberland, and Durham; and on adverting particularly to the petition from the city of Norwich, the committee further recommend an augmentation to the present number of Judges, who might be usefully employed in Westminster Hall, and the country, by which means an opportunity would be afforded of supplying the defect so loudly complained of on the Norfolk and Midland Circuit, viz. of having only one Judge on the spring circuit to preside on the civil and criminal trials.

Inefficacy of capital punishments. Some years since, three men of the name of M'Grath, a father and two sons, were executed at the village of Bausha, in the county of Tipperary, under the following extraordinary circumstances, for robberies committed in that neighbourhood. One of the sons was convicted at the Clonmel assizes, and at his execution his father and brother attended, and received his corpse in their arms from the gallows! soon after the second son was convicted for a fresh offence, and his execution was likewise attended by his father, who also received

the body in like manner !! It might be reasonably supposed, that two such awful examples would have made such an impression on the mind of the old man as should have induced him to avoid a similar fate; but, strange as it may appear, the effect was otherwise, as the deluded man was, within the last six months, convicted for a new crime, and executed on the spot where his two sons had so recently suffered !!!

American Indians.-Six warriors, and their chief, who is called Se-nung-gise (or long horns), have paid a visit to this country. They are all, except one, from the settlement of Buffalo Creek, near the celebrated fall of Niagara. They are of the Seneca nation; and their interpreter's name is Augustus Charlton Fox; he has left a family at Buffalo, is 26 years of age, and has lived as a trader there, amongst the Indians, 12 years. These Indians agreed with a person at Buffalo, for a certain sum of money, to come over to Eagland for 12 months, and exhibit their na tional customs. They sailed from Boston, in the brig Sally, and arrived in Liverpool the end of January. During the passage which was very boisterous and alarming the Indians exhibited great patience and composure of mind, more so than the other passengers, from a belief that they were under the care of the Great Spirit. After exhibiting their performances at Liverpool and Manchester, they visited Leeds and York. At these places the Indians were visited by some of the Friends, to whom their nation has been particularly attached ever since the celebrated treaty of Wm. Penn on his landing in their country.

They have been supplied with books, and great pains have been taken during their stay in this county to teach them to read; and, for the time, their progress has been very considerable. An attempt has also been made to reduce their language to writing, with very great success. They have left this county for London and we have been informed that the persons who had the charge of them are desirous of relinquishing their trust.

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YORKSHIRE.

Antiquities.—In excavating the scite of a very ancient house, in Wade - Lane, Leeds, belonging to Mr. R. Kemplay, the workmen discovered a quantity of ancient coins. They were found loose in the earth, about two feet below the surface, and appear to have been deposited there previous to the erection of the building, and as the building was certainly one of the most ancient in that town, the coins must have been there many hundred years. They are of copper, or perhaps of Corinthian brass, and are so much coroded that the inscriptions are very imperfect. The impression is a crowned head, which, though nearly similar on all the coins, is not exactly the same; the reverses are various, some having a female figure, and others that of a man, and these in different attitudes. They are probably some of the early Roman coins; but how they came to be deposited in this place, it is not easy to conjecture. At least one of the coins seems to be that of the Emperor Otho.

Hull Custom-House.-The receipt of duties at the Custom-house, Hull, for the quarter ending April 5th, 1818, amounted to £83,000; that of the same quarter last year, £40,000.

New Harpoon. A new harpoon has been invented by Mr. Robert Garbutt, of Hull, for the Greenland fishery; calculated to secure the whale in the event of the shank of the instrument breaking. The improvement consists in placing a kind of preventer, made fast to the eye of the foregager, which passing along the shank of the harpoon, is attached to the thick part of it in such a manner, as neither to lessen its strength nor impede its entrance when the fish is struck.

Effects of Lightning.-On the evening of May 7, Mr. Turner, a school-master, about thirty years of age, was killed by lightning as he was passing near a farmyard at Owlerton, in the neighbourood of Sheffield. Every thread of his garments was completely stripped from his body,

except a string of his sleeves, which from his occupation of a schoolmaster he wore; this adhered to his arm, and was nearly the only enblem by which his singed and emaciated person could be recognised. Small vestiges of his clothes, which the electric fluid had partly reduced to tinder, were lodged here and there in the crevices of the wall against which the body was discovered; the watch, seals, and chain,

were each found in different directions from the body, and an umbrella, which belonged to the deceased, was stripped to its skeleton. The deceased was going on a visit to a friend in Owlerton, and was seen passing through a farm-yard but a few minutes before the shocking catastrophe happened. A man at work in the farm-yard, as well as many others in the neighbourood, experienced the effects of the storm: he had just buried the fork he was using when he was knocked down by the lightning, as were also a little boy who stood near him, and a fine stirk that was at a short distance.

Singular Discovery.-Two men, named Osgay and Owen while taking a walk in Middleton Wood, adjoining to Beeston Park, on the 10th. May, perceived a piece of check, partially concealed by a heap of rubbish and dry leaves; a further inspection discovered a large quantity of linendrapery goods, which, with commendable honesty they covered up again, and while one remained to watch the other went in search of a constable; during his absence a man came, and examined the hidden goods, and carefully covered them all over. In the evening the deputy constable of Leeds, accompanied by several other persons, arrived at the place and secreted themselves near where the goods were deposited. About ten o'clock the same man who had before visited them again made his appearance, and prepared to take away the goods-when the concealed parties rushed out, and secured him. The goods it appears were stolen from the shop of Mr. John Pape, draper, at Wakefield, on the Friday preceding,

Monthly Register.

Royal Marriage.-April 7. At Cassel, His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge to

MARRIAGES.

the Princess Augusta of Hesse.

At East Retford, Mr. B. Clater, sur

geon, to Mrs. Capes, widow of the late Mr. Capes, solicitor.

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