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I - ;.: . - --7, ? ,,:,,, w ,,' - '7,, . 1 .0,,,..7.,..: : •", , MP e lemj 4 es: • 44 firer • . • 4,14 f~ 1 . 1 11 4..) •L PIN V . 07 1 i .IvoinhAftro: -440 Tx. DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT. PRICE i N°. 13,774. TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 3, 1831. 'CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY ELECTION. THE Committee for securing the Election of Lard PALMERSTON, as one of the Members for the University of Cambridge, have the honour to announce to the Members of .he Senate, that the Vice-Chancellor bas appointed TUESDAY next, i c y 3, for the commencement of the Election. The early attendance Lord Palmerston's friends is particularly requested. Th e Committee have reason to fear that, from the imperfection of •:eg and changes of residence, some Members of the Senate may not ice received letters which have been addressed to them. The Com. have, therefore, to apologise for any such apparent neglect, and -;quest an early communication of the Intentions of any gentlemen l e di s p ose d to support:Lorl Palmerston, end have not yet an. -.ounced their determination. Arrangement% have been made by which any of Lxd Palmerston's f-* At may be sure of findsig the means of conveyance to and from ..,ntaidge, by application at the Committee-room. The Committee sit daily at the Union Hotel, Cockspur-street, where the evilest attention will be paid to any communication addressed to t; Right Hon. CHARLES GRANT, Chia-man. Union Hotel, Cockspur-street, April 28. CAMBRIDGE ELECTlON.—Barouches aud four start from Lord PALMERSTON'S Committee Room, in Coeimpur weft, at the following hours t - Monday :—Nine—Ten—Fleven.—Twelve.—Three. Tuesday :—Six—Seven—Right—Nine—Three. Wednesday :—Six—Seven.—Eight—Nine—Tbree. Thursday :—Six—Seven—Right• —Halt-pant Right—Nine. The STAR Coach, from the Belle Sauvrge, Ludgate-hill, each day at bnlf-past Two. Hone* for pant:lg have been also provided, and a..angements of the same nature have been made for renaming from Cambridge. Applications for places, &c. to ba nude at :he Committee Room, Ulion Hotel, Cocksprratreet. April 29, 1/131. TO THE GENTLEMEN OF THE SENATE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE. GENTLENZN, THE King has been advised to exercise his prerogative of dissolving Parliament, and of immediately resorting to the smse of the people in the election of their Representatives. It has been Icpeatedly avowed by his Majesty's confidential servants, Oa tl•is measure Is adopted for the purpose of ascertaining •hc sentiments of a New Parliament, not upon the gencnti txpet:;ency of some change in the Representation, but upon the merits of a particular measure of Reform to which his Majesty's Government stand committed, and which, in their opinion cannot be altered or modiVed with advantage in any point of essential im portance. To that measure so proposed I entertain iosuperable ob jections, and I have been called upon by a very large number of the constituent Body of the University of Cambridge professing .tmilar opinions, to offer myself upon the present occasion as a Candidate for the Representation of the University. Under ordinary circumstances I should not have ventured to aspire to this high distinction, and the illness under which I ant at present la. bouring, and which may unfortunately preclude me from paying my personal respects to the members of the Senate, would have been sufficient to deter me from seeking so arduous a trust. But the present arc not ordinary circumstances ; the consideration of health—the fear of being charged with presumption—are over powered by the deep intcreat which I feel in the maintenance of those establishments which are connected with the Univer sity, and by a firm conviction that their security is endangered by that extreme change in our representative system which I have felt it my duty strenuously to oppose. lam bound, at the same time, to avow that I am not adverse to the consideration of a temperate measure of Reform, which, while It extends the basiaof the representation, gunge cure to respectability, Intelligence, and wealth, their just influence ; shall give to no part of the United Kiugdom an undue preponderance ; riel shall expose to no hazard those venerable establishments in Church rnd State, the integrity of which I believe to be essential to the well. being of all classes of the community. The grounds upon which I make this appeal, impose upon me the duty of declaring, that I shall consider my election by the University nn the present occasion, as implying only the devolution of a temporary trust—and that I shell be prepared to relinquish that trust at any time, when a candidate may be found better entitled in the general opinion of the members of the Senate, to represent the opinions and promote ►he welfare of the University. I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, Your most obedient humble servant, WILLIAM YATES PEEL. .‘ptil 26, 1831. LITERATURE. The Megrepolitan.—COCHWlllC AND PICNZ RBOl LL. In the first number of Mr. Campbell's New Magazine, just published, and which, doubtless, will be a formidable rival to its contemporaries, we have an exquisite article on the " Literature of the Day," from which we can give at present but a brief extract—intending to recur to the other contents of the new periodical on a future occasion : . st One signal advantage which literature has gained by the modern state of things, is to be found in the downfal of authority. The hot bed growth, and rapid succession of authors, allow no time. for any one of them to be erected into an infallible standard, to which his see saws in all future generations shall be obliged to conform. Had Meiotic written foe .filessrs. Longman, or Murray, there would have boo no danger of his philosophy ruling despotically for fourteen ittnitlYnd years; and it may be asses than doubted whether Homes himself, so circumstanced, would have set a fashion in Epics, and compelled all future spinners of Cantos to dedicate their second book, in imitation of his catalogue of ships, to an enumeration of the ' mate rielle' of their subsequent campaign. We, of the present day, 'come like shadows; w deli= and this bull-in-a-china-sluip sort of influ ence is not within our teach. There will he no more conning of Ci cero, nor giving of days and nights to Addison, to form a style. Each see, liersetler, will choose its own manner of writing, as it will the esfiion of its clothes, or the cut of its political constitutions. As the monotony of Grecian atchitecture has yielded to the pleasing, thotesh capricious fancies of the emancipated Mr. Nash, so the quaket-like simplicity of Homer has given place to the arabesque originality, of cream living libenitors of the English Parnaesus. The competition which has arisen between the authors of modern times, has had the further advantage of quickening all their various movements.— Compare the cumbrous periods and floundering verbiage of the very beset writers of King James's day, with the snip-snap epi granunutic style of newspeper penny-line men.l tis the difference between a bread-wheel waggon, and a reilway steam-carriage. The sweat busi ness of a modem nuttier is to seize his opportunity. He knows that the world t: ill neither await his leisure, nor suffer him to bestow all his tediuusness upon his readers. The age of things is arrived, and we have 110 longer time to throw away upon encase F ormer ly, w h en b oo k s were scarce, and a well-locked el:es-case contained the whole Boating eapi , el of a nation's literary amusement, a voluminous proser was a ' public benefactor • fur he hail helped to pass away the long winter's niebts, that too frequently hung heavily on hand. Burton's folio on 3lelenclioly was an inexhaustible mine of cheerfulness ; and a ponder. ous romance that took a year in; perusal, prevented more suicide than the stomach-pump. • But now, u man who is before-hand in his literature, must be a hard reader ; and a literary preset is as sedulously avoided, as a button-holding monopolist in conversation. He who does eot condense his subject within the smallest passible space, has nil more chance of t h e public car, than a country put, amidst the epidemic coughing of the House of Commons. " 'f bat this rapidity is generally unfuvourable to the interests of 11. terature, is an old woman's prejudice. Brevity is not only the soul of ' wit, but of clearness . That which cannot be well expressed in a few avails, rarely becomes. Hews intelligible by being wriipt up in many.— it is in vain that objection may be taken to the want of clearness in brevity, or tu the example of Tacitus, whose ohscuriry is at least as conspicuotts as his ter.-cocas. Exceptions only prove the rule; and it may be questioned whether the enigmatical puzzles of Tacitus do not reside mere in the quaintness of his conceits, and a purposed implica dun of ideas, rendered necessary by the timer in which he wrote, than in the mere sbortness of his affected sentences. How many verbose definitions are less expressive, than the simple term to be d. fined ? What speaking can be plainer, and at the 141112 C time more brief, than the energetic style of the orators of Billingsgate ? Lawyers have at tempted to make things clear by tautologies and circumlocutions ; aetl' instead of arriving at the unequivocal communication of a vender of haddock and Mounding, they have deluged the world with fraud, sopliia. try, anti injustice. " We rail books now like music, at sight; and a cramped passage that rseuires study to comprehend, is a beDWOCe. of 4:mulcts:flatlet against its author. 'Whatever may be thought .f this result, its attain. went is rut to be insured without labour; and it is some proof of the merit of those authors, in whom it is most conspicuous. Questrfteite, says an Italian panto e difiteile. With eight hundred folio pates to turn in, a man must he a blunderer indeed, who cannot tell his story ;' and it may be questioned whether there is any meaning at ell in that head, which does not contrive to convey its ideas to the seeder, before he arrives at so remote a "fihis r but to condense rut entire science within too pamphlets of useful knowledge, or to bring the history of I an empire into as many volumes of a family library, requires that the subject rhuuld be well digested by the author before he puts pen to paper. If it be true that nvelern book-makers take less pains than their predecessors, it must follow that they come better prepared for their task ; and let critics say what they will of an indolent recourse to dictionaries, r.bridgments, and indexes, a man is not less meriturioue for availing himself of the improvements of his age, than he is less a traveller for having circumnavigated the world in a steam-boat." • " Tant quo nous autism dee livrea," says Mad. de Sevigne, " nous ne nuns pendrons pas." THE NEEDLE OF CLEOPATRA. WORCESTERSHIRE ELECTION. THE Struggle for Liberty will commence in this County on FRIDAY NEXT, the 6th instant, and knoaing the cur. tior.s:uhieh will be made by the Enemies of our:Constitution, who have lung enjoyed undue ascendancy in this County, that it will require a mighty effort on the part of the Independent Freeholders to secure the Triumph of the Reform Candidates. We need scarcely apologise:for Liore earnestly entreating EVERY FRIEND to the GREAT cAI:SE of REFORM, to ADVOCATE the CAUSE of the Hon. Captain FREDERICK SPENCER, Brother to the Manly and Sincere Lord Althorp, one of the most Strenuous Friends, and a Tried Supporter, of the Grand Cause of Reform. Come forward, then, ye Emulators of the descendant of the patriot Russell, and if ye know of a Worcestenhire Freeholder, between the Land's End and John-o'Groat's House, raise him the means of a con veyance to the Poll: and if you cannot send a Freeholder, send us the pietnre of the Km° we love, which, whether in gold or silver, will help to defray the expense we calculate that a protracted poll will mar Sion; and let your aid give the lie to the enemies of Captain Spencer, their Country, and their King—teho dare assert that the voice of the rmple is not In favour of Lord John Russell's Bill. übscriptions forwarded to Captain Spencer's Certificate Committee, TM] Inn, Worcester, will he entered an a Book, and duly published. By Order of the Committee, JAMES REISTOW, ehlll7lllllll. f ON TRACTS FOR RUM, PEAS, COCOA, TOBACCO, &e. VICTUALLLYG OFFICE, May 2, 1851. riE COVVISSIONERS,for VICTUAL L ING MAJESTY'S ..VAVY,.S.c. do hereby give Notice, That on THuasaav, the 12th Instant, they will be ready • receive Tenders in writing (sealed up), and treat for the supply of ,he fallowing Articles to be delivered into the Victualling Stores at f)(ptf td, viz. itu» Peer 4 ..cua )at meal .. 414 flutter ( lireee r.b.cco QUANTITY. 100,000 Gallons 500 Quarters 40 Tons 20 Tons 50 Tons 5 Tons 10 Tons 20 Tons PIRIOD OT DILIIIIIRT. One half of each by the 30th instant, and the remainder by the 45th June next. slmple. of the Peas, Cocoa, and Oatmeal, must be producedb 7 the party tendering ; but those for Soap and Tobacco, together with th 4: Cot - A:lams of the Contracts, may be seen at this Office. bath Tender must specify the price in words at length, and be de . •Jertd before One o'Clock on the Day appointed; and the Person 'h) makes the Tender, or some Person on his behalf, must attend :•vket when called for. M. WALLER CLIFTON. It cannot fail to be deeply lamented by every lover of antiquity, that this precious object, according to an account', in a Journal last week, is to be sent to France, although it I was positively given as a prevent to our late King, by the Puha of Egypt. We fear this must have arisen on the pert of the late Government, on account of the expense, which was calculated at 15,0001. comparatively nothing to the an- I tiqaity and grandeur of the obelisk, and the importance it would be to this country, (wormy and navy having grappled with the French armies on the spot where the immortal Atercremby perished in the arms of victory. Many were the efforts made by distinguished officers at that period to convey it to England entire, as will be found in the top-, lowing account : E tett et' these colossal objects, which have been celebrated for ages, and excited just admiration for exquisite workmanship and antiquity, is formed of one solid Nock of red granite, originally conveyed front ! the quarries in Upper Egypt, mar the Cataract, and situated close to • the shore. They arc each about 70 feet in height, from 180 to 190 tons in %r,E;;It, and upwards of 7 feet square at the base ; all the four side of both are richly adorned with hieroglyphics, sculptured apwardslof one iheit in d e pth. These needles have been considered as part of those I proud and lofty monuments which once adorned an entrance to the te i :lendid palace of Cleopatra. On the terminrtion of hostilities in Egypt, in the year 1801, several. °Seem of rank proposed to convey the obelisk, which lies horizontally, to England, in order to be exhibited in some proper situation, as a too r.unient of British aeldeveniente. Lord Cavan, Admiral Doncliy, and milers, who mere so fully competent to decide on its importance to England, m:antined it with attention, and with approbation of the pro ject. bit' , scriptions were let on foot among the othcevs of the army and navy is, wring_ in t:gypt. to raise a rem to transport it to London; and 7,000 i. roistal. The design was abandoned at the time, ths ugh it was resolv.3.l that some memento should be left on the spot. Accordingly there was engraven on a tablet of white marble, an inscription cool. memorative of the valour and intrepidity which was so eminently dis played by the British army under General Sir Ralph Abercromhy, and the nave under Lord Nelson and Sir Sidney Smith, and placed under tie petiesmi. All English travellers deplore that this Invaluable piece of antiquity has not, by some expedient, been brought to England. in ti:e year 1810, the ship of war Africa, belonging to the Pasha, having occasion to proceed to England, Government, no doubt, calcu• laeo l on the knefizial effects which might be obtained for Britain in a coainiemial and political point of vi ew , by secur i ng t h e f r i en d s hip ofl the Paeita, saw the expediency of making some repairs to this vowel. In conseqtance of this she sus admitted into the royal dock at Wool.l uleh, coppercd, rigged, ornamented, and fitted out like a British man of. war ; and returned to Alexandria with presents from the Prince Re gent to his Highness. These acts of liberality were never forgotte6, but, on the contrary, made a proper impression on the mind of the via roy, and laid the foundation of a friendly understanding between the governments of the two countries. On the application of the English administration, he agreed to supply horses from Egypt to itiouut a regiment of British dragoons engaged in the Spanish cam paign; and notwithstanding the general prohibitions of the Ottoman government to export grain, yet he fitraished supplits of corn to the island of Malta, and to our forces in the Mediterranean. Still entertaining an ides !that he had not, by these means, dis charged his obligations, he consulted 31r. Briggs whether any further compensation should be made by him for the 'nark of attention he had received from our government i that gentlemen suggested the propriety of offming to the Prince Regent the obeli.k, (Alta the Needle of ' Cleopatra. On this subject several personal conferences took place with the Pacha and Mr. Briggs. a correspondence was opened between the latter and the Egyptian minister; and on Mr. Briggs returning to England it 1820, he received a letter from the minister ' authorising him to offer that relic to the Prince Regent, " as a mark of gratitude and esteem for the favours received," and the Needle was from that moment at the disposal of the British Government. In April following, His Majesty was graciously pleased to accept the offer; and orders were given to consider the proper means to be adopted foe its conveyance to England. Officers of ability were despatched to Alexandria, who surveyed it, and determined on the necessary ore:T*- 1 0one to convey it to its destination ; and k report, it is understood, has been drawn op on the practicability of its removaL For some moat unaccountable reason, however, this report has not been mud.: p.uilie, whiea it was unque.tioes'lly tie duty of the late Admiralty to have done; nor lave any exertions b.en made to. bring 'bet mtgatficeto object to ibis country. A variety of opinions on this subject. by persons of skill and ability, bare been given ; and I hove to refer some which has been lately expressed to myself by a gallant ad teir,l en the subject, in the Appendix. Shier, therefore, it now remains with the British Government to &- cid : whether the oteaeures suggested are to he followed up to transport this precious relic of antiquity to the English capital, not a moment should he lmt in carryieg tit.su into exceutim ; since in theevent of the death of the present Pe.cha, the o i l) .rtunity tray be lost ; be may, p:rs ails, give it to another ; and his esser might not be di-ne‘r.l to surrender it. bet adopt a lire of conduct decidedly hostile to ti. ;At's!' nation. If this offer should he refused to be listened to, I trust tome other spirited it.dividuals will be found in our country, and especially those who have travelled in the East, and among the army and navy which foa,,lit in Egypt, and wrested, on the memorable 21st March, 1801, the standard denominated the Invincible, who, highly appreciat ing this obelisk, will at once contribute the sum . neeessary to trans port it hitlitr, and which cannot exceed sixteen thousand pounds. Should this mighty column be landed in England, and set up in some emetneuding situation, It will form a most striking, nay, noble object, and not be exceeded by any monument or the Roman, British, or French capitals, nor perhaps on any other spot of the glob. Further, it will be eminently calculated In keep alive, and transmit to future ages, that severe contest obi& iM place In the " lead of Egypt" between our brave soldiers and hang and the forces of that most extraordinary man, who, from the easenast grade, rose to become the tyrant and oppressor of the world, and doe troyer of the peace of autakind.•—tins Wilson's Travois in thilialp Land, Evypi, to. • By letters I lately received from Egypt (1890), it appears that Mr. Salt, the late Consul-General, had " thrown cold water ou the project of removing the Needle to England, from the estimated expense - of its transport, which would be 16,0001 sterling." Subsequent advicee I (Jan. 1831), add, that to the high honour and liberality of the Pasha, be has agreed to be at the sole Expense of removing this column from the spot in which it now lies to any vessel that the British Government sent ;iv its removal to England ; besides which, persons have actually . offered to contract to lad - it safely there. BALVAN. Of the Russian General Diehitseit whose name has become so fa. wiliest, t - whoa., laurels, gathered in the mountainous pawcs of Tur. key; se 103 doomed to wither in the marshy plains of Poland, there are, fa 46jur .441x1s Journey. many interesting and characteristic unwsiates. teenling to prove, that the pompous addition to his name of the "Trans.Balcaniie," was conferred upon him fur an exploit of very easy accomplishment. The mountainous district of the 13alcan never having been attempted by troops in moelan times, was supposed to be impassable; art opialon which had received a long confirmation from the ooliey, ..r rue•-e prtbally the real ignoranca of the Turks, and the sepi eze.: of the Russtatts ; but the real obstacles which the latter mai eunnount when they found themselves in this, nominally, for. posa, tvere comperativaly insignificant, and the General seems to L., ecntbited no other talent dam in selecting the Feliumo Balcan, which is ielte..tted to le the most ;lactic -able route. " The number of cerri,q;aq thaz iiecompankd the army," says Major Koppel, "is a proof how trifling were the difficelties they had to encounter. Almost every liOd-oCierr lied Ws witch* tha general officers three or four, and evert" company a cart for their camp kettles." Subsequently th e au. ebor .. , tsited the Pravadi pass, another of the great thoroughfares into Tut!iey, which, so far from presenting an impregnable battier to an in. vatling force, was unfortified, and perfectly practicable for artillery; upen which unexpected discovery the Major remarks, that instead of granting to the Russians the high crealt they assume to themselves for the passage of the Baleen, he rather felt surprised that they bad not ac complished this feat in the war which lasted from 1809 to 1812, or in the late campaign of 1828. So miserably mismanaged, hosecer, are the commissariat and medi cal departments in the Russian service, that even the comparatively insigoificant exploit of marching from the Baleen to Adrianople, unop. posed, except by a few bands of roving and undisciplined Turks,_'pro duced an almost total disorganization in their army. There were 700 men in the single hospital of Adrianople. Their loss in the campaign of 1829, from sickness, alone, was estimated at between 30 nnel 90 ; 000 men, end die ItUrsian officers coat se.d to 70,000. If such were the mortality of a victorious army, only opposed by raw levies of Turks, how tcrrrible, we had almost said, how annihilating, must be their losses in a retreat through the unwholesome marshes of Poland, with wide.-mead insurrection on one side, and on the other the in.: domitable Poles, cernmanding the finest cavalry in the world, and fighting, not only for the liberty, but for the very existence of their country ! ;ui n On Saturday the members of the Royal Academy gave their anniversary dinner, at their apartments, Somerset house, which was uttended by a numerous assemblage of ' guests of the first rank and talent, among whom were his Royal Highness the Doke of Sussex, the Lord Chancellor, First Lord of the Treasury, President of the Council, Lord Privy Seal, Secretaries of the Home, Foreign, and Colonial Departments President of the Board of Control, General commanding in chief, Chief Justices of the king's Bench and Common Pleas, Master of the Rolls. Vice-Chancellor, the Lord Mayor, Governor of the Bank, Master and Warden of Dulwich College, President of the Royal Colleges of Physicians and Cur eons, Surveyor-General, Field Officer in waiting, Russian, American, Hanoverian, Netherlands, Swedish, Danish. Brazilian, Sicilian, Bavarian ministers: Dukes of Norfolk, Somerset, Devonshire, Argyll; Marquis Camden, Earls Carlisle, Cowper, Spencer, Bathurst, Gros venor, Roeslyn, Lonsdale, SSeX E Browulow, Morley,Gower; Archbishops of Canterbury and York ; Bishops of Winches ter end Llandaff; Lords De Dunstanville, Farnborough, Crantham, F. L. Gower, Right Hon. G. Agar Ellis, Hon. Sir Willoughby Cordon, J. Swinburne, G. Phillips, R. In glis, A. Carlisie, F. Freeling, H. Wheatley, Messrs. J. H. Green, T. Coke, R. Ridley Colborne, W. Sotheby, E. R. Tanner, J. Nash, S. Rogers, G. B. Tynielie, J. Harman, W. - ,kll, J. Turner, Washington Irving, W. Y. Ottely, Captain Woolmore, Rev. Mr. Bury, &c. &c. Among the toasts usually given was the following:—" The health of the noblemen and gentlemen who have honoured us with their company en this occasion." The Loin CIIANCEI. LO lt returned thanks, and spoke nearly as follows: " Mr. President and Gentlemen of the AcAenty,—Accidental circumstances having placed me in the situation of being called to Atom thanks on behalf of your guests for the honour you have just done them, 1 feel assured that in expressing the delight with which I always assist at this periodical ilbsenibinge, I sireak their sentiments also. It is, indeed, not more a display of the tritimrh of the fine arts than of the deeivinkrest which the most dis tinguished classes of the comnornite take in their Frogress; and well they may ! Of those pursuits what has not been said, what panegyrics not pronounced, hundreds, almost thousands, of years ago, by the most eloquent tongues ! That they are the ornaments of prosperous fortune and the solace of adverse, give a zest to our daily toil, and watch with us through the sleepless night, enliven the solitude of the country, and tranquillize the bustle and turmoil .„.. 0 , 0 -ww•iw , irmiNvirr..... ..., . ,-‘ 7 ,- ; ..... ..„,. ..,.. •-,.. •. - - • • ~. - . _d .„..___ , „., ~!,:::...... ~.......,., ~. .. ,:.,.. i*s town,—all this 244 1 but it hillillis they do, and much mite.; improvers of mankind : they are living sent- -the offspring indeed of civilization Greece, whose piety they have so ' nourishing the parent from whom their . softening and humanizing the characters lag the fierceness of the wilder passions lad harmless enjoyment for more - maintaining the innocent intercourse ing one more pledge of peace, their , protectress as she is, of all that is most excellent among men. It becomes gently to foster them. It is the duty is the interest of the country. No stai fortune PO splendid, as not to derive ' such patronage—no lot so obscure as the benefits they diffuse. And I have, satisfaction in being at liberty to anno.noe occasion, that a society of much indur have the honour to preside, and of improvement of all conditions of the pied in maturing a plan which has pleted for extending the enjoyments humblest classes of his Majesty's sul i.ropose, not to those I now address, accident I represent on the present of the President and Members of the KING'I3COLLECtic Lb. Friday, the annual meeting of the Mends and promoters melon took place at Rooms, St. Jamee• hisbop of CANTERBURY in the chair. The most t supported by the Archbishog ' of York. the Bishops Bristol, blandeff, St. Asap Winchester, and of Itutlard, the Marquis of Bute, Lord Sidmoutl, Vict*Chancellor, Sir Henry Raiford, Bart. Sir George &c. The meeting was otherwise numerously and rest The Secretary read the annual report. from which his Majesty King William the Fourth had graciously deelare himself the Patron of the Institution. (Cheers. which !tad been made in the building during the le to satisfy every expectation which the Council had bad come to a determination to direct their attention, stance, to the erection of that portion of the intended Ss sant/tin the lecture-room and other apartments ins, for the purposes of education ; these apartments a state of forwarduces, as to warrant expectations Impediments at present unforeseen should occur. opened, in• both departments, in the month The report further stated, that It was the intention proceed to complete the devotion towards the river' house, as mom as they shall be justified by the the corporation ; and as they stand pledged to meet to finish the same by the summer of 1834.., be required on the part of the friends of the institut.. plishment of this object.. The report then enumerated meat of the professors to the various branches of sewn to be taught in the establishment, to the number , following scale of payments required front students upon by the Council, as stated in the report, r" Students admitted for general education, which e. and morals, classical literature, mathematics, logic, fish literature, are to pay, when nominated by proprietors, but nominated. 261. 5.. When the education of students is extended to other branches in addition, a further payment will be required. The fees for lectures had not yet been fixed. In the school, the course of education will include religion and morals, Greek, Latin, at.d Freuch, arithmetic and elementary mathematics, history, geogra phy, English composition,kc. the terms as follows : For a pupil nomi nated by a proprietor, 151. 15a. for a pupil not as nominated, 181. 181. Amongst the donations to the College Library, the report in particular noticed a valuable cabinet of !Bitterne Medics, collected by Sir Henry Belford, Bart, and presented by him to the College. The total sum contributed by donation amounted to 52,96517 s 3d ; of this sum there had been paid into the hands of the bankers 52,6471. ss. 3d. and it was anticipated that ultimately the deficiency on this account would not be considerable. The whole number of sit era of 1001. taken has been 753. The last call made on shareholders was at the elosc of February last ; it had been promptly answered, and the whole of the calls for instalments had been paid on :159 shares. The report ex pressed regret that some instalments remain unpaid, and that not less than 51 shareholders bad expressed their intention of not paying any further instalments, while the representatives of eight others, deceased, had also declined to make any further payments. In conclusion, the Council cennatulated the proprietors and the public in general on the near approach of the period when the College would be opened for the purposes of education. Mr. POYNDEE inquired if it were the intention of the Council to include the Hebrew tongue among the languages to be taught in the establbhment ? The Bishop of LONDON said, that nothing definitive had beet settled on that point. If it was judged adviscable, the Hebrew hut. guage should also be included. (Hear.) The Bishop of BRISTOL, in moving that the report be received, eu logised the conduct of the Council. and expressed his regret that all the subscribers bad not met the calls far instalments made upon them, on the faith of which the Council had entered into large contracts. He trusted that those shareholders wr'uld reconsider their determination. and not withhold their support from the institution. General THORNTON expressed hisregret that the report said nothing about any power in the. charter of the Cmporation in grant degrees.— He thought It was expedient such a power should be posseued by King's College ; for if individuals educated there had afterwards to re. pair to Oxford or to Cambridge, or to the Scotch Universities. it would be occasioning what he might term a double trouble in procuring edu cation, which ought to be avoided, as detrimental to.the interests of the College at all events. he was decidedly of opinion, that the (7olirge ought to have the power of granting degrees in Civil Law and Medicine. The Bishop of Lownow begged to set the gallant Genoal tight it never was the intention, nor was it now the intention of the Council that the College should have the power of conferring a degree. Ile should not then enter upon a question whether an infest or experimett. tal institution should or should not have that power; it was eitou,;ll to say that from the beginning no such intention was held out. Sir Jews. LANOMAM expressed a hope that the Council would never ',brink from having the principles of the Christian religion taught within the walls of the College, such a course would at once benefit the Institution es it would the state. The Report was then put and carried unanimously. MAY-DAY. Yesterday was what is called " Chimney-sweepers' Day." It was on this day that their late excellent friend, Mrs. Montagu, of Portman-square, entertained them at her house in Portman-square. She gave them rout beef and plum-pudding, and a shilling each ; and they danced after their dinner. The following is what an ingenious writer says of their May-clay gambols Will any body hive ths goodness to abolish the May-day chimney-sweepers ? They am a blot upon the season ; a smear ; a smutting of one's face ; a piece of soot in one's soup ; a cinder in one's gravy ; a rotten core to one's apple. They are like a tea-kettle on a sofa. They are a story, alas ! too true : shadowy, with out setting off the fa‘.e (.f things ; children, yet not hal.py ; merry-making., yet nobody is the blither. They are out of their element at all thrice, and never more so than on their only holyday. Their dancing is that of lame legs ; their music is a clattering of stumps; their finery like a Hark quilt's leavings thrown into the dust hole. They come like a contradiction to the season, as if nothing clean. wholesome, or vernal could be got up—the day should be Spited with the squalidest and sickliest of our in-door asso ciations. They did not say we come to make you happy but to show to the unhappiest man, that there are youths and boys who beat his unhappy lot. They under stand their perverse puniness well, and dress up some of their party like :Ads; because, of all masqueraders, their dirty dinginess is less suitable to the sex. They contradict even the sprit of masiperaile itself ; and, like the miser in the ro,vel, wear real chimney sweeping clothes, with a little tin sel, to make the reality more palatable. It is doubtful even whether they keep their own pence ; whether the pittance, which charity itself is ashamed to give them on such a day (angry with the bad joke, and with forgetting them at other • times,) is not surrendeml at the close of their hopping expo sure to the sturdy keepers who attend them. Nothing is certainly their own, but the dirt, of which they cannot get rid, and a disease, or liability to a disease, peculiar to the trade, and diswraceful to human nature. Our jest has be come serious; but so it must if we think well of it. Will nobody undertake to admonish these sorry-makes eff the ground, or substitute re..l merry-makers instead ?" 1. , • 7 7.7,7 , ; ; • 11 , 95* is not the whole truth. The fine arts are great ving sources of refine- ration ; but like her of often commemorated, eir existence derived— 'eters of men -1'116'1a,.- ions; substituting calm perilous excitement-- of nations, and afford- sir great patroness and most precious and most us all, then, most dill- y of the government, it 'talon is so exalted, no lustre from bestowing as not to participate in ye, therefore, a singular nounoe to you upon this nduence, over which 1 which the object is the e people, has been occu- been successfully com- ts of the fine arts to the subjects. Permit me to but those whom from t occasion, the " health to Academy." LONDON. Is and promoters of this Insti. t. James's -street; the Arch. .'he must reverend prelate was Bishops of London. Chester, and Oloueester ; the Duke Bidmouth, Lord Bexley, the t. Sir George Staunton, Bart. • asly and respectably attended. from which it ap eared that id graciously ed to Ott. (Cheers.) The progress ing the last year was such as acil had fanned ; the Council eir attention, in the first in- he intended structure which is rtments immediately shinned partments were now in such xpectations that unless some d occur, the College will be month of October next.— intention of the Council to the river in front's( Somerset t . by the state of the funds of red to his Majesty's govern. F 1834. a renewed effort would the institution for theaccom- ten enumerated the appoint- aches of science and literature e number of seventeen. The Lint students had been find . 4 report, vin. In the College.— which will comprise religion mica. logic, history, and Eng- • tted by proprietors, 211. when cation of students is extended