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r THE LAW AND THE GOSPEL. FOR THE EVENING STAR. How strangely LAW and Goan. vary, Let W higs and Jesuits attest, When tyrants, to defend their aerie, Find things in Scarid suit them best. The Often's curse, with quenchless Mel, We're told, falls heavily on liars; law's curse, we know, falls worst, in sooth, On those—wko dare to tell the truth I PETER SCHLENIIHL. London, September 18,1829. COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE. Public advertisements had announced, that a Meeting of the Shareholders of Govent-garden Theatre would take place on Sa turday, at the saloon of that establishment. At two o'clock, about fifteen of these individuals had assembled : one of them, named Wallop, took the chair. The CHAIRMAN observed, that this meeting had been con vened by an advertisement which he had issued for the pur pose of calling the attention of the shareholders to the state of the Theatre, and of learning what course they intended to pur sue. He was himself a Shareholder, and was quite unconnected with Meurs. Kemble, Willett, and Forbes, or with any other person interested in the Theatre. He was, however, bound to say, that directly after the decree which had been made in Chancery a short time since, be had had every reason as a shareholder to be pleased with the conduct of Mr. Charles Kemble, and he antici pated from it the most favourable results. In this trying crisis be was happy to observe the cordiality which seemed to exist between Mr. Kemble and the engaged performers of the theatre; and he felt, in consequence, his confidence in that gentleman's exertions considerably strengthened. The spirit of conciliation, the wish to unite in the endeavour to rescue this theatre trout its difficulties, seemed now to pervade the breast of every person, and all other considerations appeared to give way to it. Under these circum stances he had thought it desirable that the shareholders should have the opportunity of declaring what were their intentions, and what the line of conduct they meant to pursue; and although this meeting was small in the amount of its numbers, he trusted and be lieved it would do nothing to which the other shareholders would not most readily assent. Having thus stated his object in calling them together, he should listen with attention to any proposition that might be made on the subject of their meeting. Mr. G. Roams, after a delay of a few minutes, addressed the meeting. He was not a shareholder, and had, therefore, waited for some one who held that character to make some proposition to them; but as nobody bad risen to do so, and as he, though not a share holder was the representative of some Gentlemen who were , he would leave, on their behalf, and by their authority, to propose some resolutions. The Gentlemen he represented were ready to agree to any resolutions that this meeting might think proper to adopt, in order to save this theatre from the necessity of remain - ing closed during the ensuing season. Mr. Robins here went into a statement of what had been dime a few years since, when the Theatre Royal, Drury-lane, was in similar difficulties, and ob served that what he should now ask the shareholders of Covent garden to do, was less in amount of sacrifice, but he trusted it would be found equally beneficial. At Drury-lane, the debts to the shareholders amounted to 50,0001. and these they had entirely given up; but all he would ask of the shareholders of Covent garden was to abstain from making any claims on their shares for three years to come, aud to give up, for the next season, their right to receive any dividend. They would be entitled to their free admissions as usual ; but if they hoped to make their property in the Theatre equal its nominal value, they must not press for present satisfaction of their demands. He should therefore pro pose the following resolutions :—" That at a Meeting of the Share holders of the Theatre Royal, Covent-garden, held pursuant to notice in the Saloon of the Theatre, on Saturday, the 19th of Sep tember, Mr. Wallop in the Chair, t was resolved that the Share holders present do agree for themselves, and earnestly recommend to every other Shareholder, to adopt the following resolutions : " 1. To relinquish all right to the payment of any dividend for the ensuing season, as an encouragement to the performers to open the theatre, and with a view to prospectively improving the best interests of the shareholders. " 2. That all arrears of annuities now doe to the shareholders of the Theatre Royal, Covent.garden, be allowed to remain as a debt upon the theatre, the payment Of which is postponed for the period of three years from the present time, and without having recourse to any legal proceedings." These resolutions having been seconded, Mr. Roentgen!, M.P. said, that before they were put, he wished to know what was the proportion of the shareholders present to the shareholders belonging to the Theatre. He saw that this meeting, in point of numbers at least, was very thinly attended, and he wished to know whether there was a sufficient value of shares there represented to render it probable that what they did would not prove unavailing, in the event of any opposition from the absentees? The resolutions now proposed went to bind the persons present to a certain line of conduct, which he did not think they ought to pledge themselves to without having some reason to be satisfied that if the absent shareholders should pursue an oppo site course, they would not be put in a worse situation than the dissentients. Mr. Rosins said that the objection was such as required an an swer, and he thought he could give it one that might prove lads. factory. There were about 152 shareholders in this Theatre, of which he believed fifty were now present, in person or by their re presentatives • and be could assure the Honourable Gentleman that at many of de meetings of the Drury-lane shareholders there had been a smaller proportion present, and yet the Resolutions agreed to had never met with opposition from the absentees. The fact was, that the plan he had proposed was the only OW by which the interest of the shareholders could be rendered really valu- able; and he should take care that those who were now absent should be speedily apprised of what bad been done, and their adoption of it requested, and their answers should be known in a week or ten days, at which time another meeting might take place, when the shareholders now present would be able to learn with certainty whether what they proposed could or could not be carried into full effect. The security against any ill-natured creditor (if there was any such person) would be complete ; for if the subscriptions went on, as he trusted they would, the property now in the theatre would be transferred by a bill of sale to the trustees of the subscribers, so that it would be perfectly impossible for any such person, though he did not believe such a person existed) to avail himself of any part of that property in satisfaction of his debt. He might come into the house and seise upon the bare walls ; but, as be could seize on nothing else, it was not likely he would put himself to the trouble and expense of issuing an execution, when he could gain no advantage by it. Mr. Rosins*); expressed himself satisfied with this explanation, and the resolutions were then put and carried without a dissentient. Mr. Roars then read letters from two large shareholders, au thorizing him to agree on their part to any thing he might think advisable for the benefit of all. He afterwards adverted to the subscription list, which, he said, was not what he ex pected to have seen it, so far, at least, as the subscriptions of the Nobility went ; but he trusted that when the present Don caster 'Races, which had engaged so much of their attention were over, and they returned to town, they would poor in their subscriptions, so as to enable the theatre to open concurrently with Drury-lane. He added, that the Duke of Devonshire, Earl Spencer, and Lord Kenyon, had already subscribed; and that Mr. Soane, who was so closely connected with the rival theatre had generously made them a present of £lOO, and had subscribed as a loan the sum of £2oo—(Cheers). He wished again to remind the holders of private boxes, that their property would be of no value if the Theatre did not open ; and that it could not open unless a sum of at least £6,000 should be subscribed. He then undertook to send the proper notice of this meeting to the shareholders not present ; and afterwards proposed a vote of thanks to the Chair man, which being carried, the meeting adjourned. The statement circulated intimating that his MAJ EBTY 'was affected with a complaint in his eyes, similar to that which had befallen the Princess SopHIA, the formation of cataracts, is nearly destitute of foundation. The report in question seems to have arisen from this slight cause, and from the known predisposition of the Royal Family to dis ease of the eye, his late MAJESTY having been, previous to his death, for several years affected with total blindness ; and his Royal Highness the Duke of CUMBERLAND having undergone, a few years ago, at Berlin, an opera tion for cataract, which was performed by the celebrated oculist of that capital, Dr. GRAEFE, and was completely successful. A Board of Field-officers has been constituted, of which General Sir CHAaLts DOYLE is the President, for the purpose of carrying on the inquiry into the abuses of the Chelsea Pension List, which have been discovered to exist to an enormous extent. The Board will hold a permanent sitting at the Horse Guards, as head-quarters; but, to facilitate the inquiry, a number of Officers will be dispatched in different directions, two forming a Board, each Board to be accompanied by a Chelsea Clerk. PART of Mr. SADLER'S SPEECH at WHITBY. A Public Dinner has been given to Mr. SADLER at Whitby, by the Merchants and Shipowners of that place, on which occasion he delivered a speech to the following effect : GENTLIMEN - The ancient and genuine policy of this great country, like its Constitution, was not, if I may so ettpreu myself, struck nut at a heat. Dictated by necessity, and 'con- firmed by experience, It was the work of successive . generations —generations of incomparably greater intellect, and, it is to be feared, of far more real patriotism than the present. It was not dictated, perhaps, by hireling critics, or patronised by poli tical pamphleteers, but it bad in the deliberate sanction and suffrages of such names as Bacon, as Locke, as Addison, the signature of immortality—men who brought to the considera tion of the subject not only the broadest lights of reason, but the utmost warmth of benevolence, and who left nothing to be discovered in the fundamental principles of human policy to the witlings of the day, but the secret of their own conceited igno rance. That policy, founded upon the certainty of the rich abundance of all things necessary to human existence within out own shores, and of the consequent duty and advantage of de veloping them, sought from foreign countries those commodities, (happily for us, few and comparatively unimportant.) which na ture has denied to this, at the same time strictly protecting those branches of British industry which could not otherwise have been introduced among us, or preserved, when established. Now it were most easy to show that whatever reasons there might have been for the introduction of such a system (and they were such as will continue to operate in all countries where Com mon sense prevail), such reasons were rendered infinitely more imperative by that course of events which has caused this coun try to be more heavily taxed than any other, and (thanks to the support of internal industry) long enabled it to dispense the most liberal reward to human labour of any nation upon earth. To allow British labour to be competed with by foreigners in our own market then is, in reference to the first fact, our taxation, the moat dishonest ; and, in regard to the second, our comforts, the most cruel policy that ever was ventured upon by any Government in the world, to say nothing of its folly. In behalf of the former system I have mentioned names ; I Will now make a still more im portant appeal, namely, to facts. Reasonings, by whomsoever urged, may fail • experience never ! Under th at system of policy, and in spite Of obstacles the most formidable, the nation increased its wealth, promoted its prosperity, consolidated its pt.wcr, and extended its dominion. Depressions there certainly did occur in the country, but these, which towards the last were plainly traceable to the introduction of parts of the absurd policy now adopted. were, comparatively speaking, slight and temporary, and above all, par tial : if one interest suffered, the rest were in a condition to sustain it. The vibrations of the national balance soon subsided into the equipoise of settled and general prosperity. The history of the world exhibits not the nation whose advancement was so rapid, and whose prosperity seemed to promise such perpetuity. That such was its condition, I appeal to your individual experience. I cite still higher authority. Prosperity was pronounced in glowing lan. guage trom the Throne—prosperity was echoed in niece exag gerated terms, and attended with boundless promises of its per petuity and increase, by the Minister of the Crown. These de clarations were believed and acted upon by the people, and their faith has been since imputed to them as their folly and their crime, by some of those, even, who put them forth. But they were true, and would have remained so, but for the perverse alteration, at that moment, of the principles of our national policy. All inno vation, Lord Bacon says, is attended with injury ; and he must be blind, indeed, that does not see the injury this has occasioned; but, by a strange fatality, which not unfrequeutly occurs in the history of human affairs, the suffering has fallen upon the guiltless, while many of those who were accessory to the change have largely benefited by It. Let us, therefore, now turn to the present condition of things amongst us. What now is the situation of the country? A re trogression In three or four short years, since he new theory has been in operation, of the most alarming nature, in whatever point of view it is considered. What is the great interest—which the place—in this heretofore hippy empire, which is prospering?— Where is it that general distress is not now experienced, and im pending ruin dreaded? What is the pursuit which is profitable to the employer, or sustains in comfort the employed? Who shall say whether that mass of bodily suffering which the almost starving operatives now endure, or the mental and concealed anguish which many of their former employers experience, is the mo.t heavy and heart-rending ? And first, if we turn our eyes to the agriculturists, who, if calculated as Adam Smith intimates, in reference to the employ ments solely dependent upon them, which in our census are placed in the other class, will amount, as I have proved else where, to two-thirds of the industrious part of the community— I say, turning to the agricultural operatives, what is their con dition ? The farmers of the kingdom are on the verge of ruin ; many of them are already inextricably engulphed ; poverty and distress pursue and have already reached them. The labourers, in entire counties altogether, are in the deepest distress, and are almost universally pauperised, and their condition has had its full share In reducing the manufacturing operatives to a like, or even a worse situation. With tens of millions of acres of land wholly uncultivated, millions of which are amongst the richest soils in the world ; with millions more, especially in Ireland. not half laboured ; and with an incredible and increasing number of hands out of employment, and whom we must sustain, though we wholly lose their labour, things have been at length so happily managed, that we habitually employ the labourers of distant countries, while ours are idle ; call their fields into cultivation, while we neglect our own; furnish with capitals foreign rivals in other branches of industry, which they will assuredly employ against us, while we voluntarily diminish the national resources ;—and still our population is inadequately, and relatively speaking, dearly fed. But the economists recommend perseverance in this policy, and deliberately advise the desertion or abandon ment of agriculture to the extent of putting three-sixths of our soils out of cultivation. Whither then must the dispossessed mil lions of wretched fugitives resort? To the manufacturing districts certainly. They must become the rivals of the present operatives there, instead of remaining their steadiest customers; and that at a time when the goods already fabricated are so immense in quan tity as to inundate the world, and so low in price as to starve the manufacturers. Political economist+, I am well aware, have an answer for all this ; it consists of a future promise : hut the peo ple of England have been long amused by promises from the same quarter and have been cruelly deceived. And, moreover, they have been reduced to such a condition by their miserable misma nagement, that they cau no longer wait their fulfilment, were they as undeviatingly true as they are manifestly false. They cannot subsist upon remote and uncertain contingencies. lty a better policy than that now pursued, this country might furnish an abun dant supply of food at a relatively cheaper price, and stiU have '• enough and to spare," to the evident comturt at d advantage of the entire community, and especially of the manufacturing part of it. Turning, then, to the manufacturing interests,—respecting these the most disheartening and prejudicial system has been adopted. We have legalized the constant introduction, under certain duties, of articles of foreign industry, which have, in many branches of business, necessarily interfered with h labour, and greatly di minished its recompense. Our silk manufacturers, our shoemakers, OUT glovers, and very many others engaged in sti,l more operose and profit able branches of employment. comprehending in the whole a great multitude of our industrious countrymen, have been subjected to the distressing rivalry of foreigners. That this bas lessened the demand for home labour there can be little doubt; none whatever that it has greatly diminished its wages. Indeed I myself have heard those who were mainly instrumental in introducing the change, exult in the vastly greater cheapness of the goods when fab ricated, which the change has occasioned. I heard the exultation at the time with sorrow, 1 hard it with shame, when I recollected that those who utterd it made no lessening demands upon the public purse, which has still to be replenished in their behalf, by the harder efforts of a suffering people. But the exultation, after all, was natural; their interests are adverse, as are those of a body, unhappily too numerous, who are the avowed and persevering enemies of a protected internal industry. As for the shipping interests, to which I shall allude hereafter, it were superfluous to tell you that they have been similarly and even worse treated ; but to this subject Isbell again recur, though I think it is almost unnecessary to do so in the present company. I think with that, at least, Gentlemen, your are as well acquainted as are the theorists. One thing has often struck me as to the policy of our projectors, namely, the address with which they attempt to sever the various interests of the country, managing the successive depression of each by appealing to the selfish feelings of the rest. Thus I think I well remember a certain individual (to whom, however, I have never once before alluded personally, notwithstanding the attempted wit that has been so misapplied on that supposition)—l say, I think I remember him holding forth to the Liverpool ship-owners, that they might probably be compensated for the loss of their protection by a similar withdrawal of that of the agriculturists; the granary of the Empire might, partially at least, be placed, it is hoped, abroad, and then the ship-owners would, of course, share in transporting hither the constant supplies—(little chance of this, however, I ween, under the reciprocity system!) But both ship-owners and agriculturists were to get other commodities cheaper by the free trade system; silks, for instance—and the silk manufacturer, in his turn, was to be propitiated by the sacrifice of the throwster, The object of these changes was all the while low prices, other wise we pay little compliment to. the sagacity of their promoters; and, after ill, a more insane attempt than to (actuate that, could never have entered into the head of man, when it is con sidered that we have a fixed incumbrance, or debt, to a vast amount, on .which the cheapening of the value of property, and of tabour in the country which has to sustain it, operates as an enormous augmentation. The fundholders, the jobbers, the brokers of the community, may and do feel the advantage of these changes; some of these dictate the carrying of them still further into effect, but will be well for them, even with a view to their own permanent interest, to pause, or they will find the mischief they medidate " for others will hill upon their own pate." Eight hundred millions of debt, and cheap prices, are not convertible terms ; no more than are foreign compe tition and British comfort. See in the light of true political philosophy, all the different branches of industry in a commit:- nity are united in the bonds of mutual interest as well as amity; and if one be weaker than the rest, the others are willing to extend to it a helping hand ; but the new system sees things in a different light ; " buy where you can buy cheapest " is the motto—though it is one which would divest of all our local duties and attachments, and even of patriotism itself.— Hence those engaged is various pursuits which can never be wholly diuevered, are taught to eye each other with feelings of jealousy and hostility ; they must still cling together, indeed, but with the deperatiun of drowning men. who drag each other down to destruction. These, Gentlemen, are my general views on the subject : general l may caU them, :or they Embrace the interests and pursuits of every class amongst us; and I rejoice to say, they are becoming univerral among the operatives. The noble English maxim, " Live and let live," is revivin,;. Whe ther it regards the labourer at the plough, or the manufacturer at his loom, I have always felt, what I have somewhere expressed, " Let those that till, and those that weave, Still by honest labour live." And 1 shall never exchange this feeling for some dry and unfeeling dogma of political econ 1111 l y. But is the country in the distressed state in which it is now represented to he? I rear it is. sod were I to become a p tlitical tenrist in order to ascertain the fact, would seek it amongst the nsassy. I should not fix my views on the mere surface, s.l* rasher summits of swirly ; these may still glow with the gleam of setting prosperity, which. like the luminary from whence I take my illusttation, casts a richer ray, the lower it is on its decline ; while its warns and cheering be ems withdrawn from beneath, have lett the narrow humble vale of poverty in dark ness and destitutim. I would riot collect my information— Where luxury In palace s lies straining her low thought To form unreal wants t" nor from flatterers at feasts ; Irons the discussions of s conomists, at the hoards of our merchant Princes, groaning with delicious viands and sparkling wines of every vintage ; but rather from the father of the cottage, who sits idle and distressed, brooding, over the fate of those from which his eyes tire averted, his suffering Wilily, but over whom big heart is yearning---nd breaking! 1 would not seek it in the dazzling drawing-room, full of curious and costly foreign decorations, where the lady's splendid robe which sweeps over the Turkey carp. t is the glowing labour of the Lyonese loom ; .:rid the peison, ev. 0 to the hand and the toot, is adorned with the products of sither than English in dustry. No! I would rather read it in the condition id that poor homeless being, of the same sex, shivering in the portico be low; whom the introduction «f those very luxuries has perhaps derived of her honest employment, and driven her to await, in the wages of prostitution, the preservation of a life worse than death itself! In a word, I would take my ideas of the principle and progress of the system from the inmates of the cottage, rather than the mansion. As to myself, 1 had to present a Petition from one of the populous Hundreds of the County of Lancaster, and I learned. en the authority ef the highly respectable Gentleman through whom it was handed to me, that thousands of the people are subsisting on fifteen pence a head per week, and even that pit tance is earned by extreme and lung protracted labour. 'fill very lately, however, the prevalence of general distress was insultingly and mendaciously denied by many of our public oracles. Thar impudent falsehood will how, however, avail no longer. Pa tent as the people of England usually are under their sufferings end privations, they are now, I des:oly regret to observe, beginning to be turbulent. When the weavers of Spitalfields were refractory, these oracles coolly recommended, not their redress, but their de sertion! The business was to be removed at their dictation to dis tant parts. Well! is Congleton at this moment any better off? Has Macclesfield been less Insurrectionary? Look at Rochdale, at Man chester, at Barnsley; what is the state and condition of those places? Would to God my voice could reach them and might be listened to, I would earnestly exhort them to peace and obedience to the laws ; but 1 would not advise them to desist from remonstrat ing concerning their grievances. lithe Ministers could be bullied out of their principles, as some of them professed to have been, I think they might be importuned out of their policy; though I am fully aware that, to the scandal of human nature, whims are much more tenaciously maintained than principles; and such, perhaps, still think, that agitators for emancipation ought to be listened to ; agitators for bread put down !—But now that the general distress can lie no longer denied, still this darling theory is to be defend ed, by attributing our sufferings to other causes; and it must be confessed they give us abundance of choice. Sometimes it has been laid to the charge of stagnation, more frequently to over-production; now the bankers are in fault—now the traders ; our agriculturists have produced too much—they have produced too little. We have a surplus of capital—we have had a want of it ; but now it seems that an indifferent harvest or two is the most convenient apology for our distresses, which distresses, however, commenced before the h were deficient ; but had it been otherwise, variations in our seasons always have existed, and ever will recur, as certainly, though perhaps not so regularly, as the cycles of the planetary system. And for these, as they must always be expected, a wise and paternal Govern ment will never be unprepared. In a word, the people of England, it has long appeared pretty plain, cannot trade to the satisfaction of their rulers ; nor does Providence appear to please them any better. These facts, however, are certain ; first, that the distress is great; and, secondly, that its date is coincident with that of the operation of the new theory ; wit ness the statistics of misfortune, of poverty, of crime, in the instant and vast increase of bankruptcies, the multiplication of cri minal committals, the rise in the poor rates, all taking their date from the identical period in question. Can events of so striking and tremendous a character exist without a cause, and one ade quate to their production? It were absurd to suppose it—one of the most important duties of the Government is therefore to search it out, and, instead of withstanding those public . enquiries for which the people have so long and so loudly called, to solicit rather than reject their evidence and information. It appears to me, we can best approach this inquiry by a series of negatives. And first, it is nut Providence who is chargeable with the miseries of the people—on the contrary, never was there a country so endowed with whatever could admi nister to its comforts, yromote its prosperity, or .enure its greatness. All the real elements of wealth are centered within our shores; all the accidents whirls could favour their development are also ours. We have a country unrivalled its fertility and ample in extent, only partially cultivated, and capable of sustaining, as to ture generations will prove, • v.or a,CessiOD of inhabitants in far greater plenty than our present population enjoys. Beneath us are minerals of the moat valuabie kind. Without, our teriitoties en circle the earth, and accumulate on our shores the products of all regions, and open a door of access to all countries. We have a climate unrivalled in healthiness, and a portion among nations the must for tunate ; surrounded by the ocean, which is not only the very element eel 13ritodi safety and glory, but an inexhaustible mine of wealth. Such is the condition in which Paovinawcs has placed us; such tl.e bounties the Deity has poured upon us. The sacred and figurative language of the :'cast might be applied to England, as emphatically as to an equally distinguished arid unthankful country of old—' He has placed our vineyard on a very fruitful bill, be has fenced it and gathered out the stones thereof, built a tower in its midst, and planted it with the choicest vines." And it may still be asked, as it was of old. " What could be done more for his vineyard than he has done in it ?" I defy any 11120 to answer this solemn question as it respects England, so as to lay in any measure the misery of this people at the door of eternal l'aovinaccs. Nor, second, is it the character or conduct of the inhabitants to which the present distress tit the country are attributable? On the contrary, there is not a populations upon earth more prone to labour, more active, enterprising, or intelligent in their exertions ; more persevering in their pursuits; none who have so great an abundance of capital, that idol of the present system, by which, according to its doctrine, our national advantages can alone be developed or distributed. Whoever, therefore, or whatever has occasioned the existing distress, the people are guiltless. Nor is it the number of our countrymen which has prodiked it. Fashionable as is the diabolical doctrine—for diabolical it is--inasmuch as it begins by affronting Gon, and issues in in juriug man : it is, like many other fashionable notions, utterly false. It is the prerogative of G 01), saving the presence of our political economists, to decide the question ; and he has decided it, in the superabundance of the means of human subsistence which, as a nation, he has lavished upon us, placed within our reach, and solicited us to accept. Whether in reference to the resources of the country or its means of profitable employment, if properly developed, there is not a sinew or an arm too many in the empire, no nor elsewhere, no more than there is a superfluous spirit called Into the realms of immortality by the Emma Goo! Short Indeed, and infernal would be the remedy, were this revolting notion true. Deportation of every kind, mur der in all its forms, indirect or otherwise, would be obvious and general benefits. Still, however, the promulgators of this notion, with the habitual selfishness of the system, pronouncing upon the redundancy of human being, invariably except themselves. The Christian advocates of this doctrine are not its person! converts ; whether as it respects life or it: rooming: cad .; task.. no personal sacrifices. They are no (tirtiusea—teneks). Nut I see your indignation at the very mention of thew' swum, ; an': 14- cher than nn the dogmas of the politic .1 aCaronalliti, air atilt rest as to this mat trr upon the assurances c-f I ;IA: who giv-th f.. to flesh ; fur his mercy endureth for ever' In whatever point of view. therefore, we regard this Resat na tion, we may assert that its natural state is one of prosperity cud happiness Such Is the condition which i: ought to enjoy. And the Minister to sebum in effect the country commits the charge of seeing that the puh!ic •• receive no inury, ought to render a rea son for its condi ion, if it to otherwise. E CH URCE. CAMBRIDGE, Sart. IL The It Ir. J. D. Hustler, B.D. late Fellow and Tutor of Trinity College. has been presented to the Rectory or Boston, bufrAlt, va cant by the death of the Rev. G. Tavel. The Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry has appointed el/. Nev. William Marsh, Rector of St. Peter's, Colchester, to be Mange' of St. Thomas's. Church, Holloway Head, Bimini/Juno. The nee. William Bleat?, jun. M.A. ha; been itist tasted to the Rectory of Wheatacre Burgh St. Peter. l'iorfolk,on h:. use .1 petiti P. C. Law, to the Vicarage of Ilawkshead, Rev James Ware, to the Rectory of Wyverstote Saffolk. Rev Henry Taylor, M.A. to the Vicarage of Stockingharn, otherwise Stockenham, Devonshire, void by the death of the Rev. C. floldsworth.—Patren, the King. The Biding of Lincoln has collated the Rev. M. Ilicluod Davys, Curate t.f salnieetby St. Clemet.t's, to the Vicarage of Thdlle thoipe All Saints, Liacch.sliire. Ilm Lordship has al-0 tLet.....1 Mr. Davys to the Curacy of Theddlethorge S. Helen's, nomination of the Rev. P. B. Edmunds, the lie;tor. Tuesday, the United Associate Synod d cided in the comp..ing calls between the congregations of Had.lugton and Bettor.: to :11r. Joseph Young. by appointing him to the tot suer pl-ce. The Synod alsta v trc judgment in a reference frown the Presbytery of New castle, relative to the case of :'.lr. \V:n. Shaw, who had tectived a call, but whose mime had b:en struck off the list ur preachers by the Committee appoi n ted to correct that list. The Sentel row appointed the ordination of 'Air. Shaw t. take place with all cm venient .peed. Thursday the 20th ult. the Nev. Thomas Jollie, formerly minister of the Governmeht Chutch at Kiess. in the counts of Caitimes., was admitted ILlikter of the Church and partela. of Bowden, in the Presbytery of Selkirk. 'the Rev. Mr. Alexander Nivtsm, Mioista of Ituber:Le, preached Lt.d presided or the ISCCaSiOII. In a letter front Glasgow, it is kaki Baron Bailie, Mr. Welsrer, has, by his last will. bequeathed the whole of hi. fortune, aniouet. in ; !. to ne ,rly £9,o' 0, tor the prakeworthy purpose of erects:::; and endowing suitable public schools. TILE ARMY. LIMERICK, Si'. 18. The depot of the 15th Regiment at rived in Caatlebar ce Th..-- • day. to replace the sth 11..gimaiir. The 75th take up the cantonments of the 65th, in the cocatic of Cork and Tipperary. A division of the 75th Regiment. uoJer Major Burney, has .1 rived at Fethard, county Tipperary. Monday last the Grenadier company of the 9th Regiment. undei Capt. Barnwell. left Belfast for Carrickfergus, and Capt. Grab'. company moved for 1).ov:1;m:el:It, both to replace Cap!. stewar4 and Capt. Brown's companies, who have returned to Belfast. Capt. Boldero's company of the 10th Regiment, have moved from Kinsale to Bandon. 1 here was a garrison review at New Castle on Monday th.fore Major General Sir Edward Blakeney, Major GoirrAl Dalbiac, Lieut. Col. Lord Arthur Hill, Scots Greys, and all the Officers now composing the Court Martial in town. Four pieces of artil lery under Colonel ‘Vorseley ; two troops of the Queen's Bays under Major Kearney ; the 60th Rifles, and 6.4. The troops tired and went through all the manoeuvres of a sham fight; the day was auspicious, and the spectators numerous. Thursday the King's Dragoon Guards, commanded by Colonel Teesdale, were reviewed in the large field attached to the Ordnance Barracks of Longford, by Sir John Byng, Commander of the Forces, accompanied by Sir Thomas Arbuthnot, General of the District. The day being uncommonly fine, there were few persons who did not avail themselves of the privilege of being present to witness the inspection. In speaking of the King's Dragoon Guard. (whose character fur discipline, &c. has been lung since established) it is scarcely necessary to add that they performed the different evolutions with a degree of correctness and steadiness which called forth the admiration of all present. I . P NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. MAILS ARRIVID THIS DAY.—Dublin 2—Waterford 2—Guernsey and Jersey 2—Hamburgh I—Holland I—Flanders I—France I . Arrived in the Downs, the Mars, Hoseason, from Jamaka , Arethusa, Arrowsmitb, and Vittoria, Lyon. from Honduras. The following vessels are supposes' to be arrived off Dover The William Bryan. ; Elizabeth, Hill; and Rawlins, —, from Jamaica ; Alliance, Whiting, front Nevis ; and Superior, Gaynes, from Antigua. The Grace, Davis, from Antigua, was on shore near Woodside, Liverpool, on Saturday, full of water—has sustained considerable damage. The Ceres, Warren, from St. Petershurgh to London. ran oi, the Cross S•nd on Saturday night, and was totally dismasted and waterlogged, but got off, and was taken in tow by smacks and boats for Harwich. The Nayaden, Lafstrom, from the Cape de Verdi, was aban doned at sea sth inst being in a leaky state. DIAL, Sam W.N.W.—Arrived the 13 syne. Mur. ray. N.w Phenix, Sargeant, and )lary, Davidson, front Jamaica. Arrived from London the Herriott, Young, fur :he South Seas , Mary, Lock, and Matilda, Pockley, for ditto; for Oporto ; Eagle, Pratt, for Swan River ; Courier, Gwatkin, for St. Domingo ; and Ebenezer. Bartlett, for Pernambuco. Me outward-bound have sailed. SETT. 20.—Wind N. N. W. PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. 19.—Wind N.W. to N.—Arrived front London the Euterpe, Dunkin, for St. Thomas's. Sailed hi. Ma jesty's ship Briton. for Lisbon ; Minstrel, Araoll. for the Care and Swan River; Providence, Ford, for Calcutta ; Euterpe, Dunkin, for St. Thomas's; his Majesty's ship Melville, fur the 'Mediterra nean ; Syren, Downing, for Trieste ; and Manuel, Howson, for Bilboa. PLYMOUTH, SUPT. 18.—Wind Northerly.—Arrived front South ampton the Brothers, dullard, fur Lisbon. Sailed the New Bi deford, Matheson, fur New London ; Retimore, uod Lyra. --a, for St. John's, N. B. FALMOUTH, SEPT. lei.—Wind W. to N. Srrr. 19.—Sailed the Duke of Marlborough packet, for Lisbon Camden packet, tor the Leeward Islands ; Lady Mary Pelham packet, fur St. Domingo; and Kingfisher packet, for Rio Janeiro and Buenos Ayres. COWLS, SEPT.:M.—Arrived the James Grant. Inglis, from the :Mauritius, and Ginner, Hughes, from Port-au-Prince. CORN—EXCHANGE, NIARK—LANE. Sapv. :11. We were must abundantly supplied this morning with Ness Wheat from Esse:, Kent, and Suffolk, which caused a great heaviness in the Mealing Trade, and although the quality and coil dition was complained of, the magnitude was the real cause prices, however, may be considered trout Is to 21. per quarter under those of this d.y se'nnight. Prime samples of New Bath sold as high as 40s. per quarter ; good Old was a trifle deans. — Beans and Peas were lull Cs. per quarter higher, and ready sale at that advance. Oats were is. per quarter dearer, although tin arrival was large : ail the Spring Curn was on the advance. It. other articles there is 1:o alteration. Wheat, Kent & E.ri . tOs 744 Peas, Grey . 3:34 it-a Suffolk, . 801 Us i Beans, Small . sus 7,::. Nortolk . 454 501 Tick . 34i Id• Rye, New, 32a 7 (is 01.120 s :Ai. . Oats ' Potatne tuts s s'. . Barley . .:Sa 40s Poland . 245 lats Malt . —s —s. Feed . 16s VS. Peas, White • . .7"3s 34. Flour, per sack, dos 63, Boiler* . 58. 404 Itapeseed 26/. 28f. per last. I m FOR TAIIONS LAST WTAIL. Wheat, English to.ittert 6.840 ; Insh Oats Do. Foreign . . . 11,007 ; Rye, English • Irish Ditto . . --9 Do. Foreign Barley, British . . 1,.1741 Bean., English Do. Foreign . . 680 Ditto, Foreign Irol . . •—••• Peas. English Malt, English . 5,414 Ditto Fureign . English Oats . • 7,879 i English Flour, sacks Foreign Ditto . . 5,6481 American ditto, Int.. SMITHFIELD MARKET. SIFT. el. CAMS AT IR WT. Beasts 3,173 I ............... Sh e ep 22,1110 Piss 2%1 Beef ls G 4 tu 4s 04 Veal .........4. Gtl to 4. t h e Mutton 4s 04 4s 4J Pork 4. 44 5. e t Lamb ........4s 44 5. Od Lamb os Od Os 0.1 Hay per load, £3 Os. to sC4 10s. Closer £3 10.. to £.5 Straw £2 ss. to £2. 104. COAL MARKET—Tins DAT. Best Walkend C0a15.... 3‘.:A. 6d. 325. 9d. SO. 04. Other sorts Ships at Market Ships arrived durins the month ~... .575 , t. i 11 i 0 . •m•• 111 1u . 49; . . 1.81•- . 145.1 9..166 . .74) t