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that writ is actually returned; and the case of Marsh v. Fawcett, relied on by the other side, did not go beyond the former decision. Then, as to the mode of publication, it is laid down by Burn in his Ecclesiastical Law, tit. Sequestration, and in Tidd's Pr. 1060, that a copy must be fixed on the church-door; and the usage of any particular diocese cannot controul the rule of law upon this point.

Lord TENTERDEN, C. J.-I am of opinion that this rule must be discharged. None of the authorities which have been cited satisfy me that publication must be made before` the return of the levari facias. It may be admitted, that until publication, no person's rights can be interfered with; and that is the whole extent of the decision in Doe v. Bluck. It was there held, that the sequestration would not pre

vent the bringing an ejectment by the incumbent upon a demise laid before the publication; but the learned Judge before whom the cause was tried, said, that the lessor of the plaintiff could not, after publication, have a writ of possession. I also think, that the mode of publication adopted in this case was sufficient. It may be convenient to fix a copy on the church-door, but I find no authority for saying that it is absolutely necessary.

BAYLEY, J.-I think that the property is bound from the time when the sequestrator is appointed, and that the publication of notice is only necessary in order to give priority against conflicting rights.

HOLROYD and LITTLEDALE, JS., concurred. Rule discharged.

POLITICAL RETROSPECT.

DOMESTIC.-There has been a defalcation in the year's revenue, to the amount of £751,527 !!!

But this is nothing to the triumph of the Popish and revolutionary faction, who have driven Sir Robert Peel and the Protestants from the helm, and left the Church of England without pilot or compass to weather the most awful gale that ever threatened our ark. In a word, a Movement cabinet has been formed, and Lord MELBOURNE, for the sake of appearances, is placed at its head. The prime minister, however, is Lord JOHN RUSSELL, and the master of Lord JOHN is DANIEL O'CONNELL. The agitator has counted his beads to some advantage, and it would be well for the Protestants of Ireland to prepare for the consequences. They are now at the mercy of a "Death's Head and Cross Bones" administration.

How far the King has yielded, we are unable to say-what are his Majesty's prospects we cannot conjecture. The most remarkable feature in the case is, that the same men have been recalled to office whom the King dismissed in November last, with the

exception of Lord BROUGHAM, Mr. LITTLETON, and Lord SPENCER. The present is, in every sense, a weaker and more incompetent ministry than that which was turned adrift in November.

How, then, can such men hope to carry on the government? They have not the influence, nor the moral force, nor the majorities which they had in the last parliament. They are completely at the mercy of O'CONNELL; and they can only hope to forward their measures through the House of Commons, under the convoy and by the strength of the "Tail." Disguise it as we may, the Protestant people of these realms have no overruling voice in the British Parliament! Lament it as we may, still this is the deplorable and humiliating fact! Our Church, our lands, our houses, our goods and chattels, our LIVES AND LIBERTIES, are at the disposal of a rapacious, dishonest, and sacriligious knot of Irish Papists. The same class of bigots and levellers whose schemes of fraud JAMES II. encouraged, have now supreme power in the popular assembly of the nation.

Do not suppose, reader, that we are drawing upon the imagination in order to arouse your apprehensions. The case is plain enough. Why is it that the same men now deem themselves strong enough to conduct public affairs? Simply because they have changed their principles, and have resolved to purchase the support of the Popish faction, by consigning Ireland, and the Protestant church in Ireland, to their uncontrolled and exclusive management. Take it, says Lord JOHN RUSSELL, and do with Ireland what you please. Give us power and place, and we in return will give you Ireland. These are obviously the terms of the unhallowed compact. The church, the corporations, the law offices, and the patronage of the sister island, are given over to O'CONNELL, in recompense for O'CONNELL'S support in the House of Commons. All the villany of the compact, which the Times so ably exposed within the last ten days, has come to pass. O'CONNELL'S nominee to the high office of viceroy is accepted by the King. WILLIAM the FOURTH has signified his assent to the nomination, by the beggar demagogue, of two gentlemen-BOTH PAPISTS-to fill the offices of attorney and solicitor-general. The mine is complete-the train is laid— the match is ready-it is now a contest between the bible and the massbook;-in short, it is a contest between reason and divine revelation on the one hand, and disgusting fraud, superstition, and absurdity on the other.

This is beginning to be understood. We take higher grounds than those afforded by a mere question of property. Property is at stake, we admit; and property and power, by tyranny and robbery, are what O'CONNELL and the Popish priests aim at. But there is more than property to be contended for. The Protestants of Ireland are now called upon to vindicate their principles at all hazards, assert the rights they have inherited, and prove their attachment to the pure unadulterated gospels, which their fathers made doubly sacred by their blood, and left them to their protection as a blessed legacy.

But it will be asked:-"Is the son of GEORGE III. aware of the consequences, especially in a spiritual sense,

which must follow his giving poweralas, absolute power!-and patronage to the Papists of Ireland?" We believe His Majesty is fully convinced of the awfully responsible position in which he is placed; and we can state, upon the most unquestionable authority,t ,that he anxiously seeks the advice, and throws himself upon the protection of the people. Why, then, say some, if this be His Majesty's dispositionwhy does not the King dissolve parliament?

Stop a bit. There is an Eastern proverb which says It is better to destroy the locust before you plant the shrub. It is a good proverb. Lord JOHN RUSSELL and his faction, the Tail included as his principal prop, must be tried according to the forms and usages of law, before they can be condemned. It is a case between our Sovereign Lord the King and Lord JOHN, his subject. The people are the jury. If they condemn Lord JOHN, the sheriff' will do his duty. If they return him innocent, their verdict will virtually accuse the accuser, not of the specified crime, but of oppression and persecution.

Let us, therefore, not do any thing hastily. The descendant of HENRY the EIGHTH's favourite is on his trial. His father's lands are at stake. He professes to pillage the church; the people object to pillage; but they contend that, if plunder is to be the order of the day, the fair lands of Woburn, Tavistock, and Covent Garden, should be subjected to the first ordeal of division and spoliation. We quite agree with the people. Give us the abbey, monastic, and convent lands, and the poor rates would be reduced fifty per cent.-a consummation most devoutly to be wished. Give back to the poor the corn-fields of the monks, the tithings of the abeyant priests-the broad acres of the souls in purgatory-the legacies of the pious the charities founded by the orthodox, and now appropriated to infidel purposes-give us back from the grasp of rapacity, dishonesty, and profanation all that we have a right to claim, and all that justice would award, and there would be little to seek at the hands of the overseer and churchwarden.

We ask in vain. Nothing will be

yielded by the patriots who hold the largest share of the mal-appropriated property to the poor of England. No; if that were surrendered, we should then have a wholesome revolution. But, as we cannot compel them to make restitution, we must do our best to prevent them from doing further mischief, by stopping their career of meditated and avowed spoliation. The formation of the new cabinet has unavoidably given the people a right of interference with O'CONNELL'S ministerial subalterns. There are near a score of them who must, before they can re-enter Parliament, run the gauntlet of a popular election. Lord PALMERSTON, it is true, (lucky chance for

him!) is to be saved the scandal of a second defeat by being hay-forked up into the Lords. Mr. CHARLES GRANT is to be spared, and elevated in the same manner. But in Manchester, Devonshire, Penryn, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Leith, Stirling, Northumberland, and many other places, contests must take place, and there the first battle must be fought.

We wait the result with some interest.

In the mean time, we submit to our readers the names of "ALL THE TALENTS " who are to regenerate us, and request them to draw a comparison with the cabinet of Sir Robert Peel, published in a late Number.

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19. Paymaster-General, and Treasurer of the Navy. Sir H. Parnell.

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Col. Leith Hay.
Lord Mulgrave.
Lord Plunkett.
Mr. Perrin.
Mr. O'Loughlen.
Mr. J. A. Murray.
Mr. Cunningham.
Lord Seymour.
Mr. Ord.
Mr. R. Steuart.
Lord Dalmeny.
Admiral Adam.

Sir T. Troubridge.
Admiral Sir W. Parker.
Hon. Capt. Elliott, R. N.

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Lord Morpeth.

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REV. RICHARD LUNEY.-A most handsome token of respect to the Rev. Richard Luney, M.A. of Magdalen Hall, has (by the subscription of the congregation) been presented to that rev. gentleman. It consists of a massive silver salver, of a bold and elegant pattern, and in its centre bears the following highly gratifying, though modest and most richly deserved inscription: "Presented by the congregation of St. Andrew's Chapel, Plymouth, to the Rev. Richard Luney, M.A. (the assistant minister), as a testimony of their regard, and a proof of their high estimation of his talent, learning, and piety."

MUNIFICENCE OF THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBUY.-It will be gratifying to those who are interested in the character and success of Winchester School, and to the public in general, to know that, by the munificence of the Warden and Fellows of the College, additional rooms have lately been completed for the convenience of tuition, and for the reception of a school library. His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, who was educated as a Scholar on the foundation, successively Fellow of both the St. Mary Winton Colleges, has transmitted to the Society a noble donation of 500%, which will be applied principally to the purchase of books. In communicating his liberal purpose, the Archbishop was pleased to express his desire to mark his regard for the place of his education before the retirement of the present Head Master. That event, it is now announced, will take place at Christmas, the Rev. Dr. Williams having signified his intention to resign his important office at that time.

BRIDGWATER.The legatees under the late Mr. F. Anderson's will mean to fulfil his munificent intentions, by the grant of a piece of ground for the site of a new church, and the sum of 2007. towards the building fund.

CONSECRATION OF A CHURCH AT MALACCA.-The accounts from Malacca, state that at a meeting held in the Dutch church, three resolutions had been passed, ceding the building to the Bishop of Calcutta, for the purpose of its being consecrated to the service of the Church of England. The church had been taken possession of by the Rev. Dr. Durrah.

BUDDHISM. Of all the creeds upon the earth, Buddhism reckons the greatest numbers of votaries. They probably exceed the prodigious amount of 260,000,000. The following statement proves this:-In China, 200,000,000; Mandchoos and Mongols in Asia and Europe, 5,400,000; Empire of Japan and Liew-khiew Archipelago, 25,000,000; Tibet and Boutan, 6,000,000; Corea, 5,000,000; Eastern Peninsula of South Asia, 25,000,000; Ceylon, 600,000; Nepal, 2,000,000. 269,000,000. The following are the ten commandments of Buddhism, according to the order in which they stand in the catechism of the creed :

Kill no living thing.

Do not steal.

Commit no immodest act.
Tell no lie or untruth.
Drink no spirituous liquor.

Total,

The laity are bound to observe these laws as well as the ecclesiastics. The following concern the Buddhic clergy alone. They must not

Anoint either the head or body;

Nor be present at any song or theatrical exhibition;

Nor sleep on a wide and lofty bed;

Nor eat but once a day, and before noon;

Nor possess any property.

Mr. B. A. Hodgson, in a paper on Buddhism in Nepaul, thus sums up the system:-" Monastic asceticism in morals, and philosophical scepticism in religion."

HARMONY OF DISSENT.

Hackney Grove, Saturday Afternoon, March 7. My dear Friend,-In reply to your note just now received, I deeply lament to state that the report you heard in town this morning from our mutual acquaintance is perfectly true. You have misstated one or two particulars, but you may fully rely on the following representation :

Before Dr. Smith sent his letter to the Patriot last Monday, he called on me, and with his wonted kindness showed me his communication. It was fairly, and I may say, beautifully written. He sealed it in my study, put it into the post, and I know that it went to the editor of the Patriot unaltered. I therefore do charge Mr. Josiah Conder with a knowing, a wilful, and a dishonourable suppression of a part of Dr. Smith's explanatory letter, and I leave you to judge what confidence I can place in his boastings about fairness, correctness, and fidelity. I will not, however, take any advantage of such an opponent. "It is the glory of a man to pass by a transgression," and many such I have laboured, by the help of God, to overlook, and do as cordially and fully forgive; but I think you will agree with me, that I have an additional reason for distinguishing myself, and many of my dishonoured brethren and friends, from a tyrannical domination which is alike offensive in a Dissenting editor or a bigoted Episcopalian.

I have written to the committee on the subject, and have received a reply last night, that the whole of Dr. Smith's letter shall appear next week. If the subject were not too grave, I should say “ Risum,” but I will substitute the word Lachrymas "teneatis, amici ?" The mournful fact exists, and no explanation whatever can alter it. This is my prayer-From envy, malice, hatred, and all uncharitableness, and from all knavish tricks, good Lord deliver us! and if we be occasionally called to either a private or public contest, may we discover at least common honesty, and observe the golden rule.

I can assure you that I shall not touch the business any more with one of my fingers. Quod feci, feci.

With fresh assurances of cordial esteem and Christian affection, I remain, my dear Friend, yours most faithfully, JOHN CLAYTON, JUN.

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