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Spirit of the Public Press. PRAYIXG FOR THE DEAD.—The spirit which has charac- terized your remarks in the case of the widow Woolfrey, in. duces me to place under your notice an inscription over the remains of a Christian Bishop, the existence of which seems to have escaped both yourself and contemporaries. The inscrip- tion to which I allude will be found in the cathedral yard of St. Asaph. It is on a plain altar monument, over the remains of Dr. Isaac Barrow, Bishop of the Isle of Ian, and situate near to the western door. The words run thus Exuviae ISAACI, ASAI-IIEN'SIE Episcopi, In manum Domini depositee In spem k-Ue resurreetionis Per sola C'HRISTI merita. Obiit dictus Reverendus Pater festi D. JOHANMS BAPHSTJE, An. Dom. 1680, ^Etatis 67. Et translationis suaj undecimo. o vos transeuntes in Domum Domini, In Domum orationis, Orate pro conservo vestro, Ut inveniat misericordiam in die Domini." Translation The remains of Isaac, Bishop of St. Asaph, Committed to the hands of the Lord In hope of a joyful resurrection Through the sole merits of Christ. Oh ye that enter into the house of God, The House of Prayer, Pray for your fellow-servant That he may find mercy in The day of the Lord. Of Barrow—"Few prelates," says Pennant, "were more distinguished for their piety and eood works. He was the first Bishop of the Isle of Man, where he bought up all the impro- priations, and settled them upon the Church." The historian goes on to enumerate a variety of other traits; and, amongst the merits of the worthy Bishop, mentions that of having beer the educator of his nephew and namesake, Doctor Isaac Bar- row, the tutor and distinguished herald, it will be recollected, of the vast and comprehensive mind of Newton !—From a Coi-i-espoyi dent of the Examiner. IRISH POOR-LAW.-Tlie friends of Ireland, and we may say of humanity, will be glad to learn, that up to this time the operations of the poor-law commissioners for the introduction of the new law into Ireland, have proceeded most auspiciously. On Friday a meeting was held at Limerick, to hear an exposi- tion of the new law from Mr. Hawley, the assistant commis- sioner. The meeting was attended by all the wealth and res- pectability of the neighbourhood, and the only feeling which appeared to pervade the assemblage was that of an entire con- currence in the views of the commissioners and a desire was most heartily expressed of co-operftting with them to achieve the great and good work in which they were engaged. The spirit which animated this meeting is similar to that with which Mr. Gulson, another assistant commissioner, has been received in the north. The mode in which the law is introduced par- takes of the beneficent character of the law itself. It is the first example of any attempt on the part of government to condes- cend to give, through authorized agents, the means of instruc- tion or verbal explanations of its intentions, with a view to ob- taining voluntary co-operation. It is expected, that at the com- mencement of the new year several new unions will be declared. Morning Chronicle. JUSTICES' JUSTICE.—The provincial journals continue to supply proofs of the practical denial of justice to the poorer classes of the community, arising from the heavy expenses con- nected with the higher courts, and the incompetency or local prejudices of the county magistracy, whose practice in petty sessions is a frequent reproach to the name of impartial justice. We have now before us two instances illustrative of the necessity which exists for placing the poorer classes of the com- munity under a better system of law than at present exists. It is a reproach to us as a people, wont to boast of the excellence of our institutions, and especially of the security which the in- discriminating administration of the laws affords to the poor, as well as to the rich, that such instances as the following should occur, and especially that they should be frequent On Thursday week the bench of magistrates at Hythe were employed for a long time in hearing a case of trespass and felony preferred against J. B. Haynes, Esq. of interton hall, by A: Randall, waterman, under the following circumstances Mr. Haynes having a pair of eagles which stood at his entrance gates damaged and broken, and suspecting A. Randall, pro- eeeded to his house at midnight, and without any notice or authority, forced an entrance into his house, and the room -t L ;Jù ¡tit !u \t .L', tud seizing ss pair of shoes, was about to take them away to compare them with certain foot-marks near his gates, when he was prevented doing so, by Randail taking them out of his hands, and turning him out of doors. Mr. Gny, of Lymington, appeared in behalf of the prosecution, and commented in strong terms on tne defendant's conduct After a long and patient investigation, the bench said they considered the offence fully proved, and sentenced him to pay a fine of 41. to the Queen. The charge of stealing the shoes the magistrates refused to go into."—Hampshire Tele- graph. The outrage committed on this poor man-the alarm to his family by the breaking up of their humble abode at midnight, and charging him with felony—the act, and the aggravating circumstances attending it-are sufficiently atrocious to call up indignation against the perpetrator, and to excite regret that the imperfect state of our legal institutions operated as a barrier to his obtaining satisfaction for the outrage. For what proportion does the fine of four pounds, imposed on the gentleman, bear to the injury inflicted by him on the person and property, the family and home, of the cottager ? Even this paltry fine goes to the Queen the complainant obtains not one farthing recompense Were the higher courts not virtually barred against the poor, an action would have obtained for this cottager, for the indiscretion or arrogance cf this barrister, damages which would have solaced the sufferer, and taught the learned gentleman a lesson of more practical worth than any he appears to have learned while studying for his profession. The above illustrates the imperfect state of the law — the se- cond proves its partial aud unsatisfactory administration. We copy it from the journal the name of which is affixed to it; ai.-d although we disapprove the style in which the statement is given, as unsuitable to a narrative of facts, we think enough is stated to prove that the complaints of the poor are treated with an indifference in petty sessions which loudly calls for some change in the mode of administering justice in those courts, to which the lower classes are confined for redress — "A CLERICAL TRIFLE.—On Monday a poor woman of Kennington, applied to the Rev. N. Dodson and — Barrett, Esq., magistrates, at Abingdon, for a summons againct J U'l Cook, the under woodman of St. Jonr.'s College, for ass adt and battery, She stated, with particulars of time and place, that Job Cook had inflicted a violent blow upon her breast, after having struck at her twice without efiect and that she was prepared to corroborate her statement by the testimony of three respectable eye-witnesses. The Rev. Justice Dodson :1 1 ai 8 -n however, refused a summons, alleging that t eifair WP.S a mere trifle, that the woman had no business ill Bagley W ood, and the impatience of Job was perfectly orthodox. The Justices' clerk's clerk, who, we suppose, had not long breathed the at- mosphere of the court, here ventured to suggest, that it might be time enough to pronounce it a trifle after hearing the rroofs of the complaint and the answer of the defendant; but to no purpase-the Rev. Mr. Dodson had made up his mag- nanimous mind long ago. In vain, too, did the poor womaa urge that her life was in danger, and that Job was already b OIL id in a heavy bond to keep his bandii off L^.s friends. It appears, however, that all magistrate* are not quite so scru- pulous on this subject; for James Morrell, Esq. has granted summonses for a batch of six persons, men, women, end children. To be sure the charge against them is no trifle; it is no-king less than that of cruelly, wantonly, and maliciously cutting their own underwood in Ragley Common; to the damage of the great Fellows of St. John's Col'ege, anl our sovereign Lpdy the Queen and unless the oath of the immaculate Job Cook has lost its virtue, they will be convicted and punished."—Oxford Chronicle. ON CANADA.—The recent pulHcation of Mr. Roebuck's letter on the present state of Cenada, in which Lord Durham is treated with a severity of injustica that does Mr. Roebuck honour, has drawn from the editor of the Morning Chronicle,' the following very appropriate remarks. Y« hen & country i3 in the circumstances of Canada, inhabited by two races, viev- ing each other like hostile arraies. juritj will condemn or ac- quit, not according to the facts of'.he cr.?9, but according ) the predominance of either rt--e ir. their composition. Nothing took place on Chartrand'i triii vhich vris rot anticipated. Lord Durham's ordinances v.ere passed bccause it wss knowr that juries would not convict. liut, then, Lord Dt.rhara ought to have given a full minesty. And bccayie he reoo; t. to the mild course of banishing Ii. few cf the i.^ore marie cd individuals who were connected vrLh the reLeIEs! the French Canadians deem that sufficient to justify the C0'lJ'C they pur- sued with regard to him Lord Durham's successor, v.hceve-r he my be, will derive some useful lessons freir, the result of his lordship's experiments. All the reasonings in Mr. Roe- buck's letter cn supposed analogies between Canada and this country are fallacious. The French Canadians viewed their constitution merely as a meant of establishing their nationality, and resisting till endeavours at improvement. But they r.re not a separate nation, they are not mi independent people, and the fault committed was the placing ia their hands the power which they employed for purposes at variance with their subjection to Britain, and injurious to the interest of their fellow subjects of British origin. The rebellion was merely a consummation of the work on which the French Canadians had long been employed. The colony is now held not by the coascat of the French Canadians, but by au army of fifteen thousand men aided by the British inhabitants and till the ideas of separate nationality and the possibility of maintain- ing their own barbarous laws are driven out of their heads, and they are forced by circumstances to perceive that they must make one people with the men of British descent, no constitutional privileges akin to what they had can be safely entrusted to them. Shuffle the cards as you may, so long as circumstances remain what they are, a large majority will come up of men hostile to British interests and determined to harass and oppress their British fellow subjects. There is a process to be resorted to before power can be trusted to the French Canadians. Lord Durham's experiments have, we trust, shown the impossibility of governing French Canada as a t British colony on any principles acceptable to the French. It would have been, no doubt, much easier to have made the colony British before but if we do not mean to make it Bri- tish now we had better at once get rid of it.

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