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J818 about 49,000, and lu 1828 about 105,000. 

 The paiisbes had not been picked out in any par- 

 ticular way, and if the increase on the whole 

 country should he in proportion, and there was no 

 reason to think otherwise, instead of there being 

 ■only 480,000 children receiving education at the 

 unendowed day schools as there were in 1818, 

 there would be upwards of 1,100,000 acquiring 

 that blessing. 



8. — By papers arrived from Lisbon, It appears 

 that Miguel is proceeding iii the same unvarying 

 character of sanguinary atrocity, having lately 

 ordered 45 victims to be executed out of 100 

 prisoners I 



9.— A public meeting of the London Missionary 

 Society held at the Rev. Rowland Hill's chapel, 

 when .£2,500 was subscribi'd in support of the 

 missions!!! 



— The last meeting of the British Catholic As- 

 sociation held, the Duke of Norfnlk in the chair. 

 A resolution for dissolving the meeting, and a 

 vote of thanks to Jlr. O'Connell, and the great 

 parliamentary advocates of emancipation, were 

 carried unanimously. 



11). — The Ad Montem fete was celebrated at 

 Eton school, when the usual monkish degrading 

 custom was put in practice by noblemen ard gen- 

 tlemen's sons, of stopping people upon the high- 

 way and demanding money !!! 



— In consequence of the bill for altering the 

 game laws having been thrown out of the House 

 of Lords, Lord Malmesbury said he should be 

 very soiTy to see his Majesty's ministers take up 

 this or any other measure that " interfered with 

 the amusement of country gentlemen!" Lord 

 Wharncliffe said, " it was a most important mea- 

 sure of police, and he would not lose sight of the 

 subject, if his Majesty's ministers did not take up 

 the measure in next session." 



— Dispatches received at the Foreign Office 

 from our resident at Egina, Mr. Dawkins, dated 

 the 22d of May, announcing tlie capitulation of 

 the garrisons of Missolonghi and Anatolico, and 

 the surrender of Lepanto, to the Greeks. 



— Lord Grosvenor presented a petition to the 

 House of Lords against bull baiting ! regretting 

 that this brutal custom should still be continued in 

 any one part of the country !!! 



11. — The case of the Leigh peerage decided, by 

 rejecting the claim of Mr. George Leigh. 



— Sessions commenced at the Old Bailey. 

 12.— A coroner's inquest was held at Willesden 



on the body of George Mason, a youth aged 19 

 years, when it appeared that he had really been 

 starved to death : as tlie verdict of the jury, after 

 commenting upon the horror of the case, was re- 

 turned, " that the decease died of starve tion and 

 cold"!!! 



— Mr. Sadler presented a petition to the House 

 of Commons from Blackburn, signed by about 

 12,000 persons, complaining of distress, and pray- 

 ing relief. " Tens of tliousands, he might say 

 hundreds of thousands, of labourers, were com- 

 pletely pauperized, and sunk into the lowest 

 depths of misery and degradation."* Colonel 



Sibthorp supported the petition, and asked what 

 had been done during the whole of the session ? 

 Nothing, but that foolish, detestable, and atrocious 

 bill, which gave emancipation to tlie Catholics. 



* Lord Carnarvon bad previously presented a 

 petition from Kirminghain (in the House of Lords) 

 signed by about 8,000 persons, on the same subject. 



Within the last few days he had received docu- 

 ments from Ireland, corroborating the statements 

 which he had formerly made of the arrogant, iu> 

 solent, and ungrateful conductof those who were, 

 in his opinion, devils incarnate — the Roman Ca- 

 tholic priests. 



15. — A meeting held at the Crown and Anchor 

 of the master ladies' hoot and shoemakers, cur- 

 riers, and others, interested in the leather trade, 

 when a report was made of the state of their trade, 

 by which it appeared that the importation of 

 French shoes in London only, during llie last 

 year, had been " in or about SOO.COO pairs!" and 

 that "many masters, who, pri^r to the Free- 

 Trade Bill, had been in the haliit of employing 30 

 or 40 men, since then had not work for more 

 than 2 or 3!!!" 



— Rev. Dr. Free sentenced by the Arches' 

 Court to deprivatiim of the rectory of Sutton, and 

 condemned in costs, for fornication, for dessecra- 

 tion of the church-yard, and stripping off the I'oof 

 of llie chancel, &c. 



19.— Pcoyal assent given to the Ecclesiastical 

 Court Officers' Bill.* 



20.— Sessions ended at the Old Bailey j 29 pri- 

 soners received sentence of death, and 118 tran- 

 sported. 



22. — Mr. Hume moved in the House of Com- 

 mons (alluding to the case of Mr. Wray) for a re- 

 turn of the number of Archdeacons of the Esta- 

 blished Church of England and \¥ales in each 

 diocese, and whether they were resident or non- 

 resident during last year. — Withdrawn. The same 

 day Mr. Harvey said he would next session bring 

 forward a motion for inquiring into the state of 

 all the crown lands. 



21.— Lord Hardcastle gave notice that he would 

 next session propose some amendment in the 

 Ecclesiastical Law. — Parliament was then pro- 

 rogued ; the following is the King's speech, read 

 by the Lord Chancellor: — 



" Sly Lords and Gentlemen — We are com- 

 manded by His Majesty, in releasing you from 

 your attendance in Parliament, to express to you 

 His Majesty's aclinowlcdgments for the zeal and 

 assiduity with which you have applied yourselves 

 to the dispatch of public business, and especially 

 to the consideration of those important matters- 

 which His Majesty recommended to. your atten- 

 tion at the opening of the Session. — His Majesty 

 directs us to inform you, that he continues to re- 

 ceive from his Allies, and from all Foreign Powers, 

 assurances of their earnest desire to cultivate the 

 relations of peace, and maintain the most friendly 

 understanding with His Majesty.— His Majesty 

 laments that he has not to announce to you the 

 termination of the war in the East of Europe ; but 



• The extraordinary emoluments of officers 

 connected with the distresses of individuals, liave 

 been represented as enormous; lience in a peti- 

 tion presented lately to the House of Commons, 

 by Mr. Tighe, it was asserted tliat the Marslial of 

 the King's Bench, had, in the due course of hia 

 fees, accumulated not less than .£3U0,OnO ; 

 and at a recent meeting of the maltsters, 

 it was announced by one of the gentlemen 

 present, that the late Solicitor to the Excise, 

 cleared .£20,000 per annum by the emoluments of 

 his office!!!— We lind these facts mentioned In the 

 same newspapers in which arc recorded tho, 

 wretched slate of our population in tlie manufac- 

 turing districts, and the liberality of allowing a 

 poor man 3 or 4 shillinijs a-week to maintain a 

 wife and half-a-dozen children!!! 



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