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regard as evinced by this address, and by the sentiment 
of the deputation. ‘After the Non-intrusion party left the 
House on Thursday, the General Assembly elected Prin- 
cipal M’Farlan Moderator, and her Majesty’s Letter was 
read, appointing the Marquis of Bute Commissioner. At 
the next meeting of the Assembly, the usual address to the 
een was agreed on, and forwarded to her Majesty by 
the Lord High Commissioner. On Sunday the churches 
throughout the city were very much crowded, especially 
those of the Non-inirusion party. The opening of the first 
of the new buildings for the Free Presbyterian Church, 
which took place on that day, excited a good deal of 
Mterest, and although no public announcement was made, 
the church was completely filled during the forenoon and 
aftemoon services. The building, which is in the Lothian- 
Toad, is a neat and substantial structure, capable of 
accommodating about 1,200 persons, and has been erected 
for the congregation by the Rev. Dr. Candlish. The 
Doctor himself preached in the forenoon, and the Rev. 
Dr, M’Farlan, of Greenock, preached in the afternoon. 
Th St. Andrew’s Church, which is the Hall of the General 
Assembly, there was a prayer-meeting in the evening, at 
Which the Lord High Commissioner and his suite attended. 
The church was excessively crowded, and great numbers 
Were unable to obtain admission. 
Gmenmills a sermon was preached by Dr. Candlish in 
€ ey 
preach to the people in two separate parts of 
in the open air, which they accordingly did, great 
Dumbers attending. The Marchioness of Breadalbane 
and Lady H. Thorpe, accompanied by Mr, Campbell, of 
Monzie, M.P., attended the meeting of the Free Presby- 
Man Assembly on Saturday, and were loudly cheered. 
WDsequently to the above proceedings, the Free 
Assembly met to receive notices of adherence to the Non- 
Intrusion protest. It was announced by Mr. Campbell, 
hi of Bieadall 
for the repay of debts incurred and repudiated by 
several of the States. Your petitioner lent to the State 
of Pennsylvania a sum of money, for the purpose of some 
public improvement. The amount, though small, is to 
him important, and is a saving from a life-income, made 
with difficulty and privation. If their refusal to pay (from 
which a very large number of English families are suffer- 
ing) had been the result of war produced by the unjust 
aggression of powerful enemies—if it had arisen from 
civil discord—if it had proceeded from an 
improvident 
application of means in the first years of self-govern- 
ment—if it were the act of a poor State struggling against 
the bafrenness of nature—every friend of America woul: 
have been contented to wait for better times ; but the 
fraud is committed in the profound peace of Pennsylvania, 
by the richest State in the Union, after the wise invest- 
ment of the borrowed money in roads and canals, of 
which the repudiators are every day reaping the advantage, 
It is an act of bad faith which (all its circumstances con- 
sidered), has no parallel and no excuse. Nor is it only 
the loss of property which your petitioner laments; he 
laments still more that immense power which the bad 
faith of America has given to aristocratical opinions, and 
to the enemies of free institutions in the Old World. It 
is in vain any longer to appeal to history, and to point 
out the wrongs which the many have received from the 
few, Americans, who boast to have improved 
the institutions of the old world, have at least equalled 
its crimes. A great nation, after trampling under 
foot all earthly tyranny, has been guilty of a fraud as 
cnormous as ever disgraced the worst King of the most 
degraded nation of Europe. It is most painful to 
your petitioner to see that American citizens excite, 
wherever they go, the recollection that they belong 
0 a dishonest people, who pride themselves on 
having tricked and pillaged Europe; and this mark is 
fixed, by their faithless legislators, on some of the best 
es Tost honourable men in the world, whom every 
ic} 
Onzie, that the Dowager M: 
had Subscribed 1,000/. towards the Free Presbyterian 
Und. The number of adherents to the protest is now 
Said to be 428 ministers; but what portion of these is 
Parochial, and what quoad sacra, is not stated. As to 
; Chey, Dr. Chalmers announced that the gross receipts 
15 new scheme were 223,028. 6s, 11d., of which 
0,342. 5s. 3a, belongs to the building fund. The 
General Assembly have also been engaged in business of a 
foutine character, The most important decision at which 
they h: 
» The deposed men of Strathbogie were, therefore, 
by the Assembly in the mo: i 
an has been eager to see and proud to receive. 
It is a subject of serious concern to your petitioner 
that you are losing all that power which the friends of 
freedom rejoiced that you possessed, looking upon you as 
the ark of human happiness, and the most splendid pic- 
ture of justice and of wisdom that the world had yet seen. 
Little did the friends of America expect it, and sad is the 
Spectacle, to see you rejected by every state in Europe, 
as a nation with whom no contract can be made, be- 
catise none will be kept; unstable in the very foundations 
of social life, deficient in the elements of good faith ; men 
who prefer any load of infamy, however great, to any 
pressure of taxation, however light.—Nor is it only this 
gigantic bankruptcy for so many Cegrees of longitude and 
latitude which your petitioner deplores, but he is alarmed 
also by that total want of shame with which these things 
st 
anner, as Ministers of the Established Church, and 
their issions were dingly received. 
Miscellaneous. 
The Comets.—At the Paris Academy of Sciences on 
Monday week, M, Arago made a communication respecting 
the discovery of the telescopic comet by M. Mauvais, on 
the 2q inst., to which we before alluded. Its appear. 
&nee was by no means distinct when first discovered; but 
oe night of the 3d he was able to take a better 
with om and to calculate its position exactly. It was 
Pe im the sphere of the constellations of the Swan and 
aye the in two subsequent observations M. Mauyais 
ertain ed its orbit, which he declares to be unlike any of 
Se laid down in the astronomical calculations. This 
at the which M. Mauvais says was never before seen, is 
Joined Moment approaching towards the earth, M. Arago 
Celeb, to this communication some remarks on the most 
last aed of all comets, that fof Halley, which made its 
are 7} Pearance in 1835, and whose periods of revolution 
al » and 76 years. Our readers are aware that 
foe ik &stronomers have examined the Chinese records 
hag aM Purpose of ascertaining whether any observation 
Teseaett made on the appearance of Halley’s comet. The 
i Nes, said M. Arago, had been without result, unti) 
Thig Ot, a distinguished Orientalist, undertook the task, 
8ntleman has shown, in the most positive manner, 
alley’s comet was observed in China on the 26th of 
Ching, 13 The following is his translation of the 
© record :—« Period Hougwou, 
North. 
Iniy eas Of the five cars (L, B, o t of Taurus); it had a 
"Ntereg the group Rei-Kiai (T, i of the Great Bear), ang 
Ito the sphere of Tseiwei (tail of the Dragon), 
ot the five north polar stars (the Polar star and 
Planig,,y, all stars marked round the Pole on the Chinese 
i an 
Waly, cbheres), passed over the Choocsai of the eastern 
Markeg ree of the Dragon), and entering the Celestial 
Serpents © Sphere of the stars of Ophincus and the 
QOth, wee remained there until the 10th moon, day Ki-oei 
Na Nov. , when the weather became cloudy, and it 
een.’’ M. Arago has compared the obsery- 
OMet , 2Y the astronomers of Europe on Halley’s 
Sbservagent finds them coincide so perfectly with the 
“Xtertaj ohs made in China on the comet of 1378, that he 
that calles no doubt that the comet observed in China wag 
Wards 4 &d Halley’s comet, Tt was not until a century after- 
meng ny correct observation of this comet took place, 
Petition Hee Repudiation.—The following remarkable 
the ae aa been presented to Congress on the part of 
£v. Syqy J dney Smith :—'The humble petition of the 
Paney, Smith, to the House of Congress at Wash- 
Petition your Honourable House. to institute 
Cc 
‘OMe 
have been d the callous immorality with which Eu- 
rope has been plundered—that deadness of the moral 
sense which seems to preclude all return to honesty, to 
perpetuate this new infamy, and to threaten its extension 
My ” = 5 
‘easures for the restoration of American credit, and 
to every statefof the Union. To any man of real philan- 
thropy, who receives pleasure from the improvements of 
the world, the repudiation of the public debts of America, 
and the shameless manner in which it has been talked of 
and done, is the most melancholy event which has hap- 
pened during the existence of the present generation. 
Your petitioner sincerely prays that the great and good 
men still existing among you, may, by teaching to United 
States the deep disgrace they have incurred in the whole 
world, restore them to moral health, to that high position 
they have lost, and which, for the happiness of mankind, 
it is important they should ever maintain; for the United 
States are now working out the greatest of all political 
problems, and upon that confederacy the eyes of thinking 
men are intensely fixed, to see how far the mass of man- 
kind can be trusted with the management of their own 
affairs and the establishment of their own happiness.”” 
Lato. 
CenTRAL Criminan Courr.—Edward Heylin, a lad of 17 
Coltman said that the prisoner had 
distribution of letters, and he 
dence reposed in him. It was necessary for the protection of the 
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His case was a very bad one. The numberof letters which 
he had purloined was very considerable ; but even if not so, the 
public must be protected. Sentence, transportation for life. 
George Davies, a Post-office carrier, was convicted of steal- 
ing a letter containing a sovereign which had been prepared 
as a trap for him. The prisoner begged for his lordship’s mercy, 
on account of his previously good character, and the number of 
years he had been in the Post-oftice is Lordship said that the 
jatter point tended rather to aggravate than mitigate 
because length of service has generally the effect of 
confidence. Fortunately for him ii 
for upwards of 
been a confidential servant to the late Earl 
iam Fuller, a mast 
graphs, ai 
ends of justice, The information had come to his knowledge at 
onday, Mr. 
evidence of suspicion against 
stance that one of the parties 
large, it would be better to gi 
Chisholm was struck over the head, and the stick broke: 
violence of the blows. 
Howse. 
nday, 
- Hugh Stratford Stratford, a young man 
residing at an hotel in Vere-street, Oxfo; 
the Marylebone Police Court, with 
of . er, a 
be passing at the time, that Mr 
n by the 
prisoner had attacked him inder 
For the defence it was stated that Mr. Stratford 
has given bills to parties to a very 
obtain information with regard to the authorship of the para- 
nd having no means of attacking Mr. Gregory through 
Wimpole-street, believing it 
SPO 
Griffith's Newcourt; 40 to 1 
the medium of any of the newspapers, by which course alone his 
RTING. 
DERBY.—25 to 1 agst Sir G, Heathcote’s lot (taken); 2to 1 
agst Mr. Bowe’s Cotherstone; 
British Yeoman; 11 to 1 agst Lord nN) 5. 
16 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton’s Aristides (taken); 16 to 1 agst 
Mr. T,” Taylor’s Gamecock; 16 
Pollock; 16 to 1 agst Mr. 
Bell’s Winesour (taken) ; 50 to 1 agst Major 
( 50 to 1 agst Mr, Theobald’s Highlander (taken) ; 
Mr. Theobald’s Humb: 
6 to 2 agst Mr. Blakelock’s A 
G. Bentinck’s Gaper (take: 
to 1 agst Mr.; Mostyn’s General 
Yarburgh’s Dump- 
ug (taken); 66 to 1 agst Lord 
Westminster’s Languish ec. (taken) ; 1000 to 15 agst Mr. Baxter’s 
Magna Charta (taken) ; 2 
Patrick c. 
OAK 
(taken), 
ay; 11 to l 
000 to 20 agst Sir R, Bulkeley’s Miss 
to 1 agst Lord Westminster’s Laura filly; § to 1 agst 
Lord Westminster’s Maria 
Judith Hutter ; 
(taken); 12 to 1 
filly; 16 to 1 agst Duke of Rutland’s 
Cowslip; 18 to 1 agst Mr. Thornhill’s Extempore; 20 to 1 agst 
Col. Cradock’s Peggy; 20 
(taken) ; 20 to 1 agst Lord 
MARK LANE, Fripay, May 2 
0 
Eg! 
1 agst Sir W. Call’s Temerity 
inton’s Egidia (taken). 
We hi 
English Wheat at Market this morning, particularly from Essex 
and Suffolk; the trade was very 
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week’s prices; in bonded ther 
remains the same. 
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Norfolk, Lincolnshi 
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ite 40t060 Red 4 
+ 401046 White —to— 
1B 25.1030 Gri 
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+ + Feed 
Beans, Mazagan, old and new . 20 to 26 (Tick 29to 97 Harrow 98 to at 
Pigeon, Heligoland. . 28024 Winds. —to— Longpod— to, 
‘eas, White . ee + + + %8t030 Maple 271099 Grey 26 to20 
WEEKLY IMPERIAL AVERAGES, 
|Wheat.| Barley. Oats. | Rye. | Beans.| Peas, 
Aprili4 . 2 .{ 45 9| 98 8] 17 5 21 
= ai Peak ae) B 5 | 7 7% 
me . . . 7 2B 3 
May 155.04: 2 81 
Ae . . . 1 29 
- 19 . . 9 23 
6 weeks’ Aggregate Aver, 281 
Duties . . ni 
GAZ 
BANKRUPTCY SUPERSE: 
Lnendraper. 
B. AN 
E O. 
F THE WEEK 
DED.—T. Brennand, Blackburn, Lancashire, 
ANKRUPTS.—C. Cooper and T. Cooper, Strood, Kent, felmongers —C. 
i faa H 1 
Jones, Stafford, 
> quare, 
rice, Liverpool, baker—T. Williams and 5. Williams, 8 
vambert, Leeds, cloth-mercha: S. a 
Musgrave, L dyers—J, Oliver and J. York, Stony 
shire, bankers—W. Copper, Reading, Berkshire, grocer: 
street, Dorset-square, builder—J. Shickle, Great Pultene: 
dealer—G. Bloor, Wharf-road, City-road, coal-merchant—J. Barn 
Gal-place, Commercial-road, Midaienex, en, ingen. Haigh, 
Yorkshire, mann! x of worsted goods—J. Fletcl 
Denniston, Halifax, woollen-manufacttirers—D, Thomas, N 
shire, grover—R. Ellis, Harroldstone, Pembrokeshire; draper- 
G. Clarke, Market Harborough, Leicestershire, ¢: 
ins, Warwick, innkeeper—H. Denziloe, Brid 
btree and J. Moore, Dewsbury 
rocer— F. 
pia ph ee ep Tee Aye 
re, coal-dealer—W. Henderson, North Sh 
)ECGH SEQUE PLONS ‘oun 
Drogheda, 
re 
spirit-mercha: 
Glasgow, wri 
Glasgow, 4) 
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park, near Fi 
BIRTHS—On the 1sth April, 
Horsford, solicitor-gen: 
at Antigua, the lady 6f the Hon. Sir Robert 
eral of that isl 
es Bu 
and, of a son—On the 16th inst,, at Dres- 
fen, the Hon. Mrs. er, of a daughter—On the 2ist inst. in Grosye- 
nor-strest, the Hon. Mrs. Edward Grimston, of a daughter—Lately at Farring- 
don, Oxfordshire, the lady of G. Manle -» Esq., M.D., of a daughter. 
MARRI e S3d inst. inger, the Hon. P. Campbell Scarlett, 
third so: to Frances Sophia Mostyn, second daughter of E. 
Lomax, Exq., of Pa st, in the county of S ea OY 
Bloxham, Oxfordshire, E. F. Furthorne, Bsq.4 01 fkley, Northamptonshire, 
d daughter of the lat . 
to Caroline, thir 
DIED.—In Bo 
Windsor Ca: 
lace, C.J 
under the nj 
olton-street, 
joratio G. 
R. 
Hark stle, late of the Grenadier oe unc! 
yin Harley-street, on the 93d inst-, the Viscoun 
i a aa AO oe Me eee OF Laciiela Lent week, in Eaton 
1s 
~ Apperley, B: 
ame of {Nim 
» on the 25tl 
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rod”, 
a 
oJ. Pain, Esq., of Banbury. 
he Gad year of his age, Col. 
., Lieutenant-Governor of 
unt 
ntess Anson, widow of 
mown as a writer, on sporting [subjects, 
