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The workmen have commenced building the column which is to support the bronze equestrian statue of the late Duke of York, on Callum Terrace, at the head of the steps leading to St. James's Pork. The column is to be one hundred and eighty feet high, Ivith a flight of stei s in the interior, leading to a gallery surrounding the statue.
The Court of Directors of the East India Company have ordered a - 511111 of200/. to be placed at the disposal of the City Board of health; for the indigent of the City. -
Mr. Maberley. was examined before Commissioner Fonblanque on Thursday. 'The next examination takes place on the Gilt of April. The total amount of Poor-rates, expended for the poor, during. the year ending :25th March 1831, in England and Wales, was 6,798,888/. 185. ; the total amount levied WaS 8,279,217/. 14s. Me Balm:Br of levy in Middlesex WIIS 943,4891. Ls. The number of select vestries in England is 2,361, in Wales 174 ; of assistant overseers, pursuant to act 59th Geo. 'ill; c. 12, in England 3,053, in Wales 196. The greatest number of select vestries is in Yorkshire 357, in Lancashire .20.2. '
The London Mechanic's Institution is in a very flourishing coal- tion. The receipts last quarter amounted to 50-1/. 15s. Fd., end the disbursements to 4511. 135. 10d. ; leaving a balance in favour of the hi- stitution of 513/. 15. 10d. There has been an addition of many mem- bers, the present munber being 1,126 ; and 501. has been paid to 1)r. Birkbeek in part liquidation of a debt incurred to him at the building of the theatre.
The Right Reverend Dr. Bramston, Catholic Bishop of the London district, has ordered the Government fast-day to be strictly observed in the Catholic ehurch as a day of fasting, prayer, and humiliation ; mud has likewise ordered especial prayers for the King and Queen to be said on that day, and a " Miserere " to be said or sung in all chapels after the mass, together with the ancient forms of prayer used for times of pesti.
lence. •
A PROMPT CONGREGATION.—On Sunday last, at Trinity Church,
Sloane Street (containing about 1,300 sittings, 800 of which are free), the Reverend H. Blunt, without any previous notice, called upon his congregation to contribute towards the sufferings of their distressed neighbours and the answer to this call was a collection made after the sermon of ;491. Those who happened to be unprovided with money, wrote the sum they would contribute on their cards, which they put into the plate.
Ma. InvisG.—This reverend gentleman is not yet expelled from his church. Preliminary to his expulsion by the decision of a court of law, he must be tried and condemned by a competent churell court, to which it belongs to lecide on all•spiritual offences. When a competent chun.b. court has deprived a minister of bin orders or his licence, then, and not before, inav a court of law deprive him of his church. All that a court of law cau'do in such a case, is to decldre a minister's incapacity to hold his church when he is disquiilithal by the decision of au ecclesiastical court. Now, Mr. Irving is not disqualified, l'or he still' retidns his licence. The Court of Ch; ;,Try, therefore, has no ground on whirh to prOCCCa. Till Mr. Irving is tried zilla fotuiuil gin It he must, in point of law, be held innocent. Thcre are two ch;;;-,res Mr. Irving;
the one, holding the sinfulness of t humanity; the ■nlicr,
in his church the performance of the 1::;;;;14,wil Ttmgues. On the former eharge, he was condemned by the l'reshyteiy of Loudon, NOW expelled lam on that account from tIc.,11. body; and the pamphlet; in which this doctrine was taught, was VOIldellIlled by a decision of the General Assembly, while thcv interdieted its author from preaching in any church in S;.otland. Thal the Trustves then applied to the lou tm't of Chancery, they might have expelled Mr. Irving ; It instead of this; th2v published a document in the newspapers, with their signatures, in With they exonerated hint from all error. Since that time also, Mr. Irving has published another painnhlet, " On the i hiliness of Christ's Mesh," whirl; is a virtual recantation of the CITOE imputed to him. By this recantation, the eharge tidls to the ground. Besides, the Trustees cannot, with ally consistency, now accuse him of an error from which they have already filly absolved him. On the other chdrge—that of allowing the performance of the Unknown Tongues—Mr. Irving has not been tried by air.i; church court ; and till such trial take place, the Court of Chancery cannot interpose. By the law of the Church of Scotland, the KiAt Session—in fact, the Trustees themselvesure em- powered to prevent and to put down any deviation from time discipline and worship sanctioned by the standards and practice of the church ; and by the hew of the land' they may punish any person for disturbing public worship. If, therefore, the Unknown Tongues are not silenced, the Trustees alone are to Wm.—Morning -Chronicle. [We doubt the Chronicle's law. It is true, the Elders may prevent any one from disturbing public worship ; but in the case of the Tongues, the exhibition is treated by the clergyman as part and parcel of the public worship. This is the offence. The Elders might as well inter- fere to put down the Clerk. The General Assembly did not interdict Mr. Irving from preaching in Scotland ; nor upon their judgment, as pronounced, could any question have been raised,—for the plain reason that Mr. Irving, while in England, not being amenable to their censure, nothing that they said or did could at all affect him. The censure of what is called the "Presbytery of London" is equally incapable of being pleaded in a court of law. The Presitytery of London is a self- constituted body, not recoanlized by the General Assembly, nor at all connected with the Church uf Scotland. Some of its members are not even licentiates of the Scotch Church. If the Trustees have any ease, it must be a purely equitable one. They engaged Mr. Irvieg to do certain things ; he does certain other things; ergo, be having violated the Collifalvi., they are free Irian it. We cannot say he has done so, be- cause NW IlOt know enough of the case to pronounce upon it ; but it is in this form alone that the t :haureilm. can look at it.] I A fellow named James Wilsee, previously charged with plundering a great number of hotel and tavern keepers, by carrying off bed-cloth,.:,s and whatevz,r be could lay his halals on, Wati cominitted on Tuesday from the Mansionhouse. Ile had lett one trick, but that seems to have been a very successful one. Ile carried, in all cases, a large carpet- bag, and bustled au eut like a person who had just come oft a journey. He never entered an inn mail late at night, and always quitted it early in the moniing, bag in hund. II is travelling compat don was filled at night with cabbage-leaves or hay, and in the morning witlt auy articles he had contrived to pick up. He had in this way visited the City Hotel, where the loss amounted to 10/. ; White Bear, Basinghall Street, loss 9/. ; Blossom's Inn, Lawrence Lane, et.; Saracen's Head, Snow- lull, St ; Queca's Arms, Newgate Street, 71. ; Ship, Lime Street, about (Jul. ; Edinburgh Castle, Strand, 15/. ; Hero, Strand, Id. ; Ship, Charing Cross; Angel Inn, Isliugton ; Gloucester Coffeehouse, Pic- cadilly, where he stole a cash-box, chimney ornaments, and a quantity t:tf cut glass.
The house No. 155, Cheapside, was burnt down yesterday. There was a great complaint of want of engines; most of which happened to be employed at Deptford, in attempting to extinguish a fire there.
Mr. H. J. Bouverie committed suicide on Monday morning, at Linatter's Hotel. Ile had for sonic time been in a desponding state. Bouverie was second cousin to Lord Radnor.
The Ileveread Mr. Williams, of Hanover Square Chapel, com- mitted suicide on Tuesday, by cutting his throat. Ile was said to have betat labouriug under considerable embarrassments, both public and private.
Mr. Launcelot Perring, residing in Regent's Park, attempted on Thursday morning to hang himself; but was fortunately discovered, and cut down. The unfortuuate gentleman has been labouring under derangement for sonic years.
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