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LONDON MECTIANWS . IXS2I2"UTIO4V. Yonerday evening the new Lecture Renal of the losoulon Me aintes lnstitu•lon was opened for the first time. It is situated in gmeltunptoc-beilitiogs, amt ill. Wit:101 n short time been prepared fur the purpmea of the Institution. Though spacious, and well aalwlated t; afford it vs% on this °cession rues- 'lively crowded. There were present his Royal Ilighnem the Duke of Sasser, the Marquis of lentolown, sir Robert Wilann, Ilr. Brougham, Sir Peter !Annie, Alderman ‘Vootl, Mr. Hume. Shortly after half-past eight o'clock. Doctor 11111K•ECI ap.. reared in the place appointed for the Lecturer. and addressed the m en hers then intiennbled as followa r—Amorgat the splendid events which at this avoinehing pegind oectir with rapid succession, to exhilirate, enceurege, and ersvigoritte the ricotta of human inn preivement, the present hone exhihits one of the moat prominent and distinguished. We hare now antertibled to witness the first application, inn comp'ete form, of a vast arrangement, for giving effective accommlation to rilearttres, which are des tined to fertilise a wilderness of intellect—mm.4lre. which well et:whine hereafter the power of education, wielded by man with the power of genii's, conferred neon man by his benevolent and o...nilpotent anther. ft will be universally admitted that we live, physically aptaking, in a world of wonders; and by him who has sttioloualy contemplated the &erect and the achieveninnts of mind, it will be no less freely an mitteel, that mentally speaking. wa live in • world of ponders also. But had it been consistent with the general order and erring: anent, t• cultivation of wand should have b een un i Ter t a i. wetted it having been confined within certain pr.% 'demi. but perhaps neceasary, and therefore unavoidable li• mina it is impontible to ototiounce to what extent the wonders of ',tele-nal creation 'nicht, re this, hive mucceded. That intel lect %hitt, OntWinnitly tIVI• nig through the barrier of surround- IN difficulties, like the beams of heaven gi immering through the n :mesa of the storm, shed its brightness on a few favoured Lpota ag antidat the general eaten, ins!-ad of pouring out a find of Debt, like the orb of day, when thro u g h n elnitilleta &v.. it blaae% wish moldier' spletulour.," The Spit its of finowledge, dune bril liant point dlmernoil in t-: • .rock of oar species t those fertile noses in the aide-spreading dee - • , forming the niase of human exist. gees, have served but to e tier the long period of darkness more I risible, end the seat reg 'Jr.:: of berrennes. more conspicuous. 141 "ham m a ster ;spirits, it n ty, indeed, be 'l4l. that as to their occur. once, they are like angtf-vialte, ss (CA' and far between." But man himself, it ought not to be forgotten, haa, for various reasons, to Amer every intim!. strongly exerted his efforts to arrest or eircutawribe the development of mind. In all ages there have emlated some intlividaale who Imre doulned the utility of instruct. i-g 'emit in literature and sciene^, and others, posaessing power, who, pentium., without entertainir g the same doubts, have resisted the programs of knowledge. Thus Ellen states, that, in his time, letters were con-Jame weirs or incurious; them the Romans treated ignominom.'y Grecian literature. though they afterwards atoned for this btutality by emulating the pre-eminence of the Greeks in the rtrablie of letters. In like manner, when the bar. banana over-ran the Roman Empire, which had been already ruined by eon-rests and luxury, and all their ennscquert evils, they Imputed the preflir,racy and wearees of the co/maned to their literary education. his ill-founded opinion, prejudice I ought rather to call it, wand, the Gothic arms advanced, and he. tune or:net:it:fled he the surerior discipline and sneers of the con. 011017n1. At hut ignorance Isecarne so univental, that Ilerbaud, the supreme judge of the empire in the 9,11 century, could not write his name; end even I/u Cut-actin, the first personage in' France in the 14th century, one, aceraiing to Pal:aim equally illi terate. This state of intellectual darkness hat been not noire- j leanly, in vario is countries, protected, and prolonged, by the excrete of the powers which ought to have promoted their advance ment in knowledge. Thus the English Barons petitioned Richard the Second, that ro villager. as the labourer was then denominateal, ahoate be rawmitied to rend his eon to school : and in Peru, as we leen from the stateir.ent of flarcilaaso Della Vega, that it was tm lawful for one, not noble, to study. In the reign of Henry the Eighth. also, a Bill was tendeml by both Houses of Parliament to the Kirg, to prevent most cif the laity from rea hog the St rip cures. Among the Turks, a circumstance wbieh cannot create any surprise, the art of printing, we are told b. Rican " is rthenhitely prohibited.. because it may give a oettioning to that subtlety of learning, which is dangerous to their government." And in other countries. governed in a similar manner, especially where gross superatition has likewise prevailed. init;edintenta of a similar nature have been discovered. But in all these occurrences there ie nothing to eselee nor surprise. comparable wi:h the sentiments of the lam Mr. Crinmhoun, once the Chief Magistrate of the nowt imps rtart commercial city of Scotland, of which he was a native ; and aware, it might therefore be supposed, of the pecu liar exceilencies of hie countrymen. which, with scarcely a dis :evident voice, have been ascribed to the extensive diffusion of edu cation. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, Mr. Colquhoun (rehab!, beat membered as the amber of a treatise on the l'olice of the Metro;oilis), whilst occupying a seat amongst the Magistrates ; of this great and flourishing city, in a inset on Indigence, has! uttered them words:—" It is the interest of every ration ' that the; people should be victim e% and well-disposed ; hut seleree and learning, if universally diffused, would speedily overturn the best constituted CO'. zmanent on earth." And to show that it is not to the more refined descriptions of knowledge merely. that his objee elons crply, an assertion advanced in another pamphlet, on the sub ject of alma. ion, tray be quotal :—" Utopian ((climes for an extensive difilision of knowledge (lie says ), witlicat specifying any portion of it, *mild be injurious or abrurd." To enter into a for. : ;nal refutation of run opinion which has experienced an almost total ; exclusion from the mind% of this enlightened peri o d, would h e t o i; contend against the shadow of a shade. I cannot avoid remarkinm ; !amerce, in regent to Mr. ('oleilioun's opinion, of the texture sad ' stability of the best Gorerranent on earth, that I believe it to be j eidodly false; and that it contains a libel, snore gross, than in the earns number of words, or in any number of words, however large, the greatest libeller of good Governments, whether punished i or unpunished, has ever yet contrived to utter. (Loud cheers.); From this picture we now turn to look upon that which the wise and rohle spirit of them later times enables me to delineate. Ilia I late Majesty, whose long eventful reign has now becom e the sub. I jeer of the historian, will, in the most distant ages, I hesitate not to predict, be gratefully remembered for the liberal feelings with which he patronl.ed and actively promoted the extension of (lineation , and his Ceti " that every child in his dominions should be able to read the Bible," will remain an imperishable record of the Round real of his understanding anti the excellence of hi* !mart. (Cheers.) 'The Monarch now stated on the throne of :his great Empire, I feel, a one of his subjects, rectifier gratification and pride in declaring, Ins manifest. (1 the same exalted liberality. By the honours which he I as already bestowed upon some of the most successful cultivators oh icience, of literature, and of the arm—upon a Scott, a Law mice. ar c a Davy.—he has conferred a: signal lustre upon himself and upon the nation ' as well as upon then:. Ilia regal bounty also, ethic!' has often flowed in a more substantial. mid for many pur poses, in a more eficetuatTorni, has displayed by its extent, no com mon interest in the advancement of the great entl!C of universal ethacation. (Cheers.) But of the instances rat ptincely regard which the friend% of our country and of education have with canna lion to recur i, the most dittingtueleed has been afforded by the tricres indMititial who honours us with his presence upon this occa igen. (Loud and continued chimera) I will rot permit myself tn speak of him in those terms which general opinion would authorize me to employ. In cause I should become liable to the charge of pre samption, and I might also encounter a suanition which I ant at all times most desirous to avoid. I may, however, be al lined to acknowledge the gratification which we have re tched from the kind and warm interest whiehi hit Royal Itighnets has taken in our proceedings, from the fleet moment teat they were made known to him ; tired for the eondemending taanner in which he has repeatedly expressed his anxious desire pemunally to witness those proetedings. ( Loud cheers.) This, in. deed, might hate been confidently anticipated ; for very few al the Trammels great attempts which have been made within the r-,t quarter of the nineteenth century, to dintinielt the wards and alleviate the suffering% of min, Of to increase Ilia stove of know- i ledge, have ken unaided by the steady, zealous, and eloquent sup- tent of the Duke of StIVIt3I. Entering, nith unahrinkirg thy, into the Wants anti misfortune. of his fellow-creatures, he has scidoni failed 'robe at hand (loud cheers) s' Wherertr man and misery arc found." Of a similar admirable spirit prevailing amongst the Nnltlea or the land, we have recently lad many proofs. The distin g.i:sli.ni (louse of Bedford, through several of itt branches, has l en s powerful auxiliary to this dignified (muse; and the lifitrlala or 1 at•sdosn, the honour of whose presence we have maw to Rt. owlodge (cheers), one of whose ancestors powerfully urged the for adopting a more general system of etitteatior --as Pee t: tent of the Infant School - Society, and as Patron of a District In stitution, similar to our own, as well as by many other means, has "reedy centribund to the attainment of this important purpose. Ammon the Spiritual I.orda, it is impossible to overtrick the vener shit Bishop of Norwich, who thus concludes a letter in which he 'rile:glees on the score of age, for his absence from a recent bite restive; public meeting, •• leery man who peas at heart either private danpineas or public prosperity, must be a friend to the rause of uni 7ental etineatinn.' There are several Senators, likewim, to whom :I.; cause of education in general, as well as our particular mime, stands l'esply indebted, whom. If titre permitted, I ....inltt with pleasure en u merate. To Sir Francis Burdett. the er.at philanthropist and the consistent advocate of human free. dim. we owe many. very many acknowledgments, ferthelhighly retraceable opinion which lie has expreised of our undertaking. and for the munificence with which lie has confirmed that opinion. I Loud cheers). Tom . y Learned and distinguished Friend, Mr. Brou g ham, for the early, ineemeent, and irresistible energy with which he Ina, in every direction, adroented and extended the measures fur arrom. Pllshing the scientific education of the artizan, we, along with the whole nation, have incurred • large debt of gratitude. (bond divers.) Befure the demorstretive power of hia gigantic mind Opposition has Crumbled into dna!, and hi. valuable •• Premien, Observations" hate so tree:l:l'y confirmed tile wavering, and instructed the Ignorant, and ta :meted the lukewarm, that lnstittrior.a similar to cur own have rapidly sprung up. in nunitters far exceeding all calculation, and in itlacco where their existence could least have brim anticipatm.l. In the formation or schools for imputing the umplt rudiments or knowledge to the infant. as well as in the establishments which give infuriation to )ruulu and to ranhood. iris csoaciota mind is unremittingly occupied • and Oh i•-ii th liar red the Semite numb e r their a h r im ile am b on g st . th e . most activ i e . , laboe riju_l% on a ". eilii"hoi!nedor shone, In era ) set they who mark his Z e r lon t. t. leers f education wou l d conclude that Infant , I Imnenatertan School's , Mechanics' Institutions, anti nondon linen palaces his undivided time and attention. (Loud applause) Nothieg too minute, nothing too roar, or toe ninon to be eteniprehended within his wontlentis orbit. Andcon teTn i'lleing, as I often (In, with silr it admiration, the iittelleetilai meg:Choi • by which he is rendered e mapiettoua anteing mankind— ard t he wassit nal clouds raised by envy and malignity in theirs unavailing attempts to obscure hisbrightness—and the splendid in halo which, it records writ by fsny," must encircle his metntry —I am elrongly ?minded of a aubligee %S mile, recently and most appropriately applied by hies to another adhject— " As some tall cliff, which lifts its awful form. Swells from the vale, and midway heaves the storm s' Though rottml its breast the rolling clouds are ' Eternal sunshine settl e , on i ts h ea d." (D ea f e rani as a l mal With all this array of rank, of talent , and of power et s , F4,, education, its benefits in the way of practical improvements,* be ennferreff; such at least is the inference from the palm semi: what slowly and successively. Even in the great dispensations of !leaven, so essential to the direction and guvernment of mankind, the same rule has been apparent ; they have nut been conitintni, cited at once, and even the moat important hare been for niady =limed or withheld. In the moue scattered manner, a n d at Intervals, have discovery and invention always pmeeeded. Tweed of so occurring. as at once, in the highest degree to bless 'mankind, the mariner's compass, gitomowder a -a negative blessing, like it. counterpart the steammnoti—the art of printing, the steam. en gine, the eufety-lamp, and the like. were made known in succession. 1 In the same manner the greatest benefactors of their specie% were created in times remote from each other, according to them eslgen ; rim manifested to the inscrutable mind of Omniscience, in puma. ing the wise and benevolent purposes of his government. Thix pro cedure has been an be rutifull v delineated by Dr. Southwood Smith, in his ' Illustration, of the Divine Government," that I shall take 'the liberty of miming the passage with but little abridgement : '' Suppose it is the will of OA to lead men to the discovery of the most intereejeg iintilS respecting the phenomenon! nature, and the laws by which the unkeree is governed ; he endows an individual with a clear and capscioux mind ; he lead. him to observe, to re flect, to investigate; he form% him to those Imitate of patient and ponfaund inqiiiry which are necessary to elicit the truths to be disclosed, and sefficient to secure him from every temptation to carelessness and diesipasion ; lie raises up a Newtom Suppose th a t at length he determines to lead back the minds of men to purer sentiment% respecting his own chatacter, government, and wools ship, and to overthrow those corrupt systems of religion which have prevailed for ages. lie mime up an individual, whose mind he en lightens, whom 'mil he tills with an ardent zeal for the simplicity of its rites ; who. though cities and empires anti against him, and nne general cry of exectation and menace tollows hint (rum land to land, goes on with undaunted courage to empire abuses, and to call, in a louder and louder voice, for reformation—it is the voice of Luther, which makes corruption rage and superstition) tremble. Sup m use it is his will insure a people i n l ove with liberty, and worthy, because nimble, of erjnying it, front oppression, and its exhibit to the world an example cat what the weak, who are S.TtUOO3 and united, may effect &gooiest the strong, who are corrupt end tyrannical—in the very mein when he is needed, he foams, and in the very statist where his presence u necessary, lie pima a Washington. And suppose it is his will too pour the balm I of consolation into the wounded heart, t o v i s i t t h e capt i ve w i th solace, to extend niercy to tile poor prisoner, to el 11l i l into his noisome ell the cheering beano. of his sun and his refuelling beam*, he breathe% the spirit or philanthropy into some chosen boson), he viiperadds an energy which neither the frown of power nor the menace at' interest, nor the scorn of inelifTerence can abate, which exhibits so strongly to the .iew• of men, the horrors of a dungeon, as to force them to %impend for a while their business and their pleasure., to feel for the %tittering' of others, and to learn the great lesions that the guilty were still their brethren, end that it is better to reclaim titan to deatma ; he gives to a euffering world ' the angel spi•it of a Howard," Thus, whilst we dare not venture, instractest by the pass, to flatter you with time hope that the sys tem of scientific education to be here pursued. and the system atic application of science to the ems, which will be here un ceasingly displayed, will suddenly inimoduce numerous momen tous improvements, we cannot, of cat:sequence. venture to pro mise that wealth and happiness in such abut dance se rosy 'satisfy the ardent desire of man for both, will rapidly result from this important protect. Vie wish only to be understood tit main. rain the position so inimitably expressed by our excellent friend and auditor, dlr. John Smith, "that in proportion as men are" rendered intelligent. they will become prosperous, virtuous, and hem." (Applause 1 The large and sudden ncquisit ion% of wenbli, which have sometimes occurred. I need scarcely remind you, I hare seldom been observed to bless, seldom even to benefit, their pos. manors. Fortunate, as the ?meld is a-cummen unthinkingly to term them, they are, in reality, like Sinbad in the Valley of Diamonds, walking amidst wealth, lent root at all comfortable. (Laughter.) Nor do we profess to banish poverty from those communities, with which our projects mar be mingled. Improvidence. and the unavoidable casualties attaching to our earthly allotment, willlonm if not for ever, maintain great inequaluies of condition. and place one portion of the armies in painful demi - mime upon entailer. Ve have been sufficiently apprised, that the destiny assigned by tile Gad of Nature, even to the Land of Promise. is one which expressly includes, the certainty of indigence. " In vain," says sit elo quent Divine, in reference to this subject, '• do all the rowers of human sagacity commit* with the energies of pious benevo lence,to banish this spectre from the world. Expelled from otie quarter, it instantly rises in another. It scowls in mockery upon all the . lahours of legislation—it haunt s e ll th e d ream% o f philanthropy—it saddens even the meditations of piety. While we are framing projects for the improvement and comfort of the ahuman race, it stands by with a sepulchral pall, and threatens to spread over our designs the plague of confusion—to clothe our heavens with darkness, and to make sackcloth our cover. ing." To the preservation of health, unquestionably one of the essential ingredients in the cup of happiness, we shall, I truer, by this expedient, somewhat largely contribute : indirectly, by the substitunon of improved halm.. and directly, by protectinj the operative chymist, mechanic, and labourer, against the pernic.otts Influence of various noxious agents, and against the destructive exertions which mechanical process, compel. slimly easy, may supersede. Already something has been achieved within these ; walls, for the safety of doe thy:lnca! artificer ; since, in the apace which you now occupy, e ff ectual, because conc lusive, experiments were omelette-I with toe apparent.' of Roberts, the ingenious miner. Upon the evidence of these experiments the Society of Art% granted their liberal reward; and. on presenting thus reward, our illustrious skitor, who so ably presides over that society, emphatically declared, that it was calculated, " to rare thousands of lives and million, of property ;" thus most impressively and extensively promulgating its excellence. Of the poesibiloy, by mechanical contrivance, of preventing the labourer working out his own dettruction 1 shall only mention one example, furnished by the coal-heavers or coal.whippers, who ply their self-murderous trade upon the River Thames. Gangs, as they are called, of human beings, belonging I to a civilized country, suspend themselves at the end of a rope, in order that their *eight, as it descends, may raise another weight attached to the other end. Four sweating toolm—(l.augh. ter.)--adapting to one own purpose the unceremonious lan- Fuage of Dr. Johnson, when describing the amusement of fish tog—dangling together at ore end of a line, and a basket of coals at the other. (Loud Laughter.) Immortal man engaged iu counterpoising a coal-basket ! It cannot surely be inueli longer endured in an inquiring end an inventive age, that upwards of three thousand men should be permitted to destroy themselves, for want of intermediate machinery, by excessive exertions, and the influence of those nnachievous agents, by which they are stimulated to endure it. With all our contrivance, however, we cannot shield " ourselves against" the arrow which Meth in darkness ;" but if we are exposed only to the natural wear ;and tear of our curious fabric, the ills to which flesh is strictly heir, life will steal on with unperceived decay ; anti one journey through the Valley of the Shadow of Deith will terminate without its frequently accompanying horrors ; the transition, again becoming so gen tle, as to Omit. when it 'occurs, of the rmintmduction of the primers( phrases-•' Ile slept with his fathers." ( A pplause). Diming contemplated the career of improvement. with the mast sanguine expectation , ' as to its results, I could, with great delight, place before you an ample ittquiry into the future condition and destiny of man. I am compelled, however, by a recollection of the time which I have already occupied. in a great measure, to desist from this cheering investigation. Tile voice of prophecy, which has long been silent, is not, as in the infancy of-human existence, now required ; the voice of experience will enable us " to learn the future by the past, of nun. I will, notwithmanding, so far advert to the coming in of time, as to reitinrk that the diffusion of the accumulated wisdom of ages through the uncultivated regions of ill-fated Africa, with the dispersion of our highly instructed operative merit:mice, whin, delivered from the bondage of ancient 1. - gislation, happily now hare the world " All bet' rs them. where to choose Their place of rest. and Providence their guide." will, T believe, soon entire the generous hopes expressed by Mr. Breughant respect! ng that country. in his treat me net Colonial Policy. "The vast continent of Africa will keep pace with the rai.e! impeovement of the world which site has peopled i and in regions where. as yet, the war-whoop, the lash, and the cries of misery, have divided with the beasts the silence of the desert, star children, and the children of our slaves. nom' erjoy the delightful prospect of that benign and splendid reign, which is amercieed be the arts, the sciences, and the virtues, of modern Erne." And by the unrestricted intercourse which modern commerce enjoys, rendering the superior attainments of one ' meontey transferable to another which does not possess them, the " frightful solitude% of the Western World will become people! with 1 activity and geeing. Scenes such as have been described in the promising republic of Colombia, by the elegant pen oh, the philoso phical traveller, Humboldt, will then no longer be found. " In America, after having lived," says he, "Miring several years in the forests of the low regions, or on the ridge of the Cordilleras—after having surveyed comitries as extonaive as France. containing only a small number of mattered huts, a deep solitude no longer affrights the imagination. We become scans rimed bathe idea of a world, that sup. ports only plants and animate; where the savage had never uttered ei ther the shout of jay, or the plaintive accent of sorrow.""The treasures of knowledge being that li hmlly dimeminated through the world, from Zembla to the Line, countless multitude% will mackly be come reflecting and intelligent • and a new era in the hietory colour species sill appear, distinguished by the love of peace, the love of order, the Mee of knowledge, and the love of virtue. Freedom, prosperity, and happiaces, will he the great and universal rewards of this amelioration, and travelling oil from perfection to Ferree don, man will at length, however remote the period, justify the de claration, that he is " half dust—helf Deity." (Load end continued applause.) 'lr. Bunt:6llAM then approached the place from which Doctor Pirkbeck had addressed the meeting, and said that he wished to add a few words, were it only to discharge the debt of gratitude which they owed to their founder and trientl, !le would indeed add but a few weeds to dm most interesting and impressive statement which they had that night heard, end in doing so, he would assign to them reasons why he, rather than Ins worthy and learned Friend, should be the person 111 offer to them those tew short observations. IVith the single exception of what his excellent Friend had said ca him (" No, no"), every word he had uttered was most just and appropriate. In the well-dmerved eulogiums which he pronounced on the friends of that Institution, from the highest to the higher, and down to the humblest amongst them, he had mule one omis %ion, which was most important ; for if there here one obligation more than another which called for marked, he had almost said Woundless gratituae, it was that which they owed to tho Doctor bimeelf.—ohligatione to out of all campariane with the utmost dem! others could have done, as not to be spoken of tin the same day and he felt a slued that in using! lowans that excellent benefactor Of theirs the language which he did, he went no further than to give txpreesion to the feeling , and the sentiments which animated every bosom in that aysentbly. It was impossible for any language, how. OM powerful, to do full justice to the debt they owed him, and he MONsei it was such as never should be forgotten ; and it was not eat alone who were so his debtors, the whole of his countrymen wise ender east obligations to the same mom. Ile would then apply to Br. Birkbeek theadmirebleepitaph written upon Sir Chris. toptur Wren. " If yon seek his monument, look around," foe there they comild behold whnt be hail created. first he (Dr. B.) was the orieinal anther of Mechanic.s' Institutions, Libraries, Lee. tures, or by whatever name they are generally designated. It was with him they commenced, and to him the country at large was in debted fur their establishment. Next, in addition is the debt which they, in common with the red of their countrymen, owed 'him for dint mighty boon, they were under to him a sepa rate obligation for having been the chief agent in cant. bushing the Loetlon Mechanic.' Institution; and heady, when he, in the Nine's of teal and attachmenr, after having fixed on a firm tenths the establishment of their Institution, grew impatient of the slow progress of a general subscription, came forward, and out of his own means, at his own expense, prepared for their use the edifice in which they were then nmemenibled—tor that commo. ' thou% tip:mimes, elegant lecture room they were indebted to their President. (Applattee.) Ile trusted that before long the rich re- j want of such liberal and enlightened zeal would be paid in the j quarter where it was an justly and so truly merited. Hardly a Fear end a half had elapsed since lie had commenced his labours in this metropolis, And such as they had then witnessed were the results of his eucceitsful exertions. Scarcely a quarter of a century ' Iced elapsed—and such was a short apace ender the eircumatances— since those associations hal their origia in Scotland, and now the whole country abounded with them. They had been Ovine! and I went flourishing every where—everywhere spreading the light of knowledge. That the advantages of such institutions !should be as ' widely as possible understood and disseminated, he had written and circulated a small tract upon the subject, explaining in a simple, ineeleaible, and cheap form, the nature and objects of such associations, and he would, from a single instance, give them en idea of the success which had attended his labours. In one village on the Scottish border, containing ' not shove six hundred nr seven hundred inhabitants, no less than between three and four hundred ODpies of his little tract Wall been taken. In l u mber evidence of due extent to which the teller towns ! and cities of the empire sympathised in theTeelings by which they were animated, he could Inform them that scarcely a day pressed in which he did riot receive three or four communication:, announcing ' the increasing spread of ktinwledee through the means which they had adopted. Ile lind made a calculation, and he had the greatest . eatisfaction in announcing to them, that sinc e t h e mont h o f January last not lees than thirty-three Mechanics' Institutions' had arisen in different places. In Liverpool and in Birming.. ham they had been estsbliehed, and that was matter of but very little surprise. for it was almost a thing of course that places of that stamp and character should be thrward in the great work; but he had to announce to them the accession not only of • great but an idle city—one WiliCil had been heretofore nothing more than a place of resin to the invalid or of amusement to the lounger—dint phase, Bath, could now boast of a Mechanic? !rstitution, founded on the truest principles, and proceeding with the brightest prospects of success. As he ban already said, it was quite a matter of course that Liverpool should have established an Institution for her numerous mechanics, but Birmiaghatti was unaccountably late in eamineneing the glorious work. Birmingham was of all others peculiarly the place where! mt Rli an esteblisliment ought bed to thrive and fleurish— there was panicelarly the soil from which they might early I have expected a rank and exuberant crop ; for, including \Vol.! , vcrliampion and other towns within a diameter of ten or twelve miles, with a population of very many thnusand souls, he ) should have supposed there was no place whates. r so likely to be distinguished for its Mechanics' institutions; such, however, was unaccountably not the fact ; strange to say, Birmingham instead of being amongst the f oremost , w hi c h WAS it s natura l p l ace. was - really amongst the last where they might leant to have expected to I find it. For this he thought those who ought to have b e en pr o mi. nent in advancing such a work were called on to explain its delay, and now vigorously to set about repairing the deficiency. lle nested that if any Birmingham ninn heard him, lie would convey to his fellow townsmen the necessity they now were under of working double tides. Ile teem acquainted with most of the great master manufacturers of thrust town, and he felt bound to bear testimony to their high character, but he thought that they deserved to be chided for having been so tardy in follow. ing the noble example set them elsewhere, and that to make up ens lost time it became them to work double tides at the least. The' old !reel im said, that that which was given quickly ant twice given; lie wetild therefore say that what was done late was but , half done ; therefore, so far from contend.); themselves with much exertions as might have sufficed at an earlier refine, they mid not perform their bare duty with lees than doubled efforts. In making these observations be wan not withent having other towns in his eye, but Sheffield was not one of those, for that town could boast of possessing 31entgomery. At Leeds, vet, much had been done, and it was peculiarly gratifying to see, that there and else where those who differed in other points agreed in that one—that it formed a bond of union and of kindly feelings between men up. posed to each other both in religion and In politics. lie would not name the miter towns which, like Birmingham, had remained un influenced by the great end glorious example of tire metropolis, and those places where inftitntione layettes establiebett. In review.. big the present circumstances and future prospects of those ...see. &done. he could not hut indulge expectations of the most extensive bench to mete When in Littler they should labour—not as they had heretofore done, in ignorance of the principles of their art—it was sot being too sanguine to anticipate a rich harvest in requital of their well.direeted efforts. Ile thought it right to advert to those particulars and dwell on those facts, for one fact was worth a thou. sand arguments. Ile exhorted them to persevere in the course which they had so admirably commenced ; thr not only were they, by imbibing from those fountains of knowledge, drinking draughts most refreshing to their immortal portion, but establishing the means of strengthening and invigorating the physical part of the man. His correspondent in Liverpool intimated that some timid people were apprehensive lest dangerous consequences might ensue from too extended an edtteetton of the people ; it was feared that they nriglit, if too well informed, tread upon the heels of their superiors. Some of those attpeeeors were aeons. tonied to wear spurs, which perhaps, if trodden on, would be j no great mischief ; and the his part, he would heartily rejoice to see his friends about him arnica with a pure on their toes, that they might stimulate those abnve them to cfthrts corres ponding to those which they themselves had so laudably made. Under these circumstances the wearers of the heel would be in debted to the wearers of the spun. This he had ventured to pre. diet in that tract which had been alluded to; and also, that the worst which could happen to these who were called our superiors from • the dissemination of knowledge was, that they would be constrained to educate teenselves a little better. (Bear, beer.) Ile had also , recommended in this metropolis, as his friend Mr. Campbell had observed—the only metropolis in Europe, except Petersburgh, Constantinople, and Madrid, where there is not such an establish. 'sent —he had recommended the formation of an University. There was the fairest prospect, he was happy to say, that this idea would be realised. The higher el:votes, God woe, had many ad. vantages over those who only steal an hour for science. The latter resort to it for pleasure, as a recreation front business—the former I make a business of pleasure. If dui gave over this system, and followed the example of those they coustdered timely inferiors, they ' would find that the pleasures of brute sense and appetite were welting to moral and intellectual pleasures. 'leer.) But there was another argument adduced against popular education. i Colgultoun (who had been alluded to in the President's address), and many of whose statements were grossly exaggerated, thought there would be an end to government, if the subjects of a ; State were well educated. In reply to this, lie (Mr. Brougham) would only say, if there be each a monster of a Government, the sooner it ceased to exist the better. (Cheers.) Let it not be thought he was speaking seditiously when he said dila. So far from thinking that the extension of science and the promotion of education was dangerous to our Goverreent, he thought that the more enlightened the people were, the safer for the Govern. ment. Any illustration to this principle came well from the populone town of Manchester. Manchester was famous for etany things, and amongst others it used to be famous for riotous malts, as they were called. There are differences of (mi. nion as to the won't kind of mobs; for Ilia part, he thought that a High Church mob, got together for the propose of pulling down Presbyterian houses, the worst kind of mob in a Christian country. lint amongst the people in alancnester there had been some misunderstanding, to which he did not mean to ad. ten. From their misunderstandings much unpleasantness had arisen; but it was a tact which he had from the bent Authority. that I not one member of the 3lechanies' Inatitution had been founds amongst those who had misbehaved. They had done their duty to themselves, but they never is one single instance had vielated the law of the land. The subject was so pleasing, that he had unwarily encroached upon his wonky friend's (Dr. liiikbeck's)province,atul t troubled the meetieg with a lecture. It would probably be the last time he should trouble them with a lecture. eVhenever his services should be thought useful, he would be most happy to at teed, but Nether than this was rot his province. Ile was only a fellow eau. dent—he had never attended that he lied not added to the stock of information he possessed, and revived something he had forgotten. The dine passed in attendance in the Mechanic? Institution was, usefully and instructively spent. Ile hoped often to have the plea.' sufe of meeting those he addressed—he wished to thank them for the attention they had bestowed on him—and in conclusion begged leave to wish them all a renod night. The Learned Gentlematesat [down amidst loud anti reiterated cheers. The Duke of tivasrx then came forward and addressed the fleeting nearly as follcws :—Gentlemen, I carnot retire from this most interesting :fleeting without expressing the high gratification I hare enjoyed as an auditor to the address of your worthy Presi dent, as well as the satisfaction I feel in anticipating the useful effects which will result from it. Upon taking lease, I beg to assure you of try good wishes, and that you may command every aid 1 can afford. Ilia Royal Highness then retired. amidst loud cbeen, accom panied by the Gentlemen of the Committee, and the Assembly soon after separated. The Vauxhall Proprietors arc, it said, making extensive preparations to receive their Royal visiters this evening. Emigration to the Canadas appear: to be increasing at very rapid rate. On the '26th of May 1821, reckoning from the beginning of that year, 31 vessels, tlte total bar ' den of which was 7.715 tons, had arrived at Quebcc, l [ bringing out only 45 settlers. Up to the same date in the present year, '2ll vessels bed arrived, toneage .0,274, and wish 2,1.57 settlers on board. . PrPORT • . • • OF Tun ST-H.I:CT COMMITTEE OF THE MICA OF, LORDS ON THE z•TATL OF IRELAND. That the Committee have proceeded, in obedi ence to the order* of the 'louse, to examine melt persons as appeared best qualified ito afford information upon the various p o i nts reapect l ng the state of , Ireland, which tell within the s c o p e o f t h e i nqu i ry they were di rected to pursue. As the inquiry has been proceeding, they have thought it tlesirs able to lay before the !loose the whole of the evidence. which Will he accompanied with an Index, affording convenient means of re. I &fence. In the present advanced state of the Session they do not feel , theittivices enabled to do more than to select, Iron) the mass of ins formation which has bsen brought before then,. some nr the sub. jeers to which it appear. to them to be atlviauble dint the attention of liovernuieut and of Parliament should be more especially di reefed. With respect to the civil disabilities of thi Roman Catholics, they , have examined a considerable number of persons, or various proles. Mons and .4:different stations in life, in order to afford to the House all the information which it was in their power to collect ; but they abstain from making any obsenations upon that evidence, because they are persuaded that upon a sulkiect of such paramount impart lance. and connected with mod) great c institutional qtteations. it was the intention of the !Inure that their duty should be confined to the collection of information. It is materiel likewise to observe, that little eritlence has been taken upon the ^abject of educttion. This duty had already been delegated to Commissioners, whose Report, which appears to the Com rnittet to contain most valuable information upon the branch of this subjtnt relating to the education of the poor, has lately been presented In the !louse ; and they understand that the further in quiries of the rminnistioners.will be directed to other branches, and will bring the whole under tffe view of the Uovernment and of Par- li.unent. The Committee have received a great body of evidence on the • actual state of the relatione between landlord and tenant, and arc of opinion that the whole of thnt most important subject is deters , - : jog of the attentive consideration of Parliament. Amongst the great evils existing in the present state of those relations are repre. tented to be the minute subdivision of laid—the number of persons who intervene between the head landlord and the immetliete occu pier. -the extreme difficulty of preventing the sub-letting of land_ and the power possessed by every intermediate landlord, Rs well as the principal landlord, to ditorain upon the occupying meant. It is for the aiedout of Parliament to consider whether ally and,, what improvement in th e l aw re l at i ng to t h ese su bj ects may be expedient or practicable. Many valtutble suggestions on these. as well as other points respecting the relation,' between landlord 1 and tenant, will be found in the evidence. The Committee oh serve with satisfaction, that the increasing intelligence of !and. lords is nnw endeavouring to apply a gradual remedy to the sub. division of land ; and they cannot but entertain a confident ex ! pectation that, for the mutual benefit of both landlord end tenant, this remedy will be as extensively applied as the nature of exist ing, contracts, and the comfort and well-being of die people, will permit. The extent of the burden brought upon the country by the pre sent system of Grand Jury Presentments has long been a subject of complaint. Various suggestions have been made tot the iin prvenient of thin system, and s o me o f t h e a b uses to w hi c h i t was liable have been partially eorredetl by the Legislature. It is stated, however, that more is mill necestaty to he done ; that the mode of deciding what works are to be undertaken. of regldeting the expel diture, and of passing the accounts, it still in many respects in,. perfect. It appears at all e v en ts d es i ra bl e , t h at if it should be Mund expedient to continue to intrust these lulu-thins to Grand Juries, the publicity of that portion of their proceedings which re lates to the levying and expenditure of the public stoney should be effectually provided for. It has also been suggested, that the charges of Grand Jury asseesmente, for objects of a permanent nature. ought tl, fall in future leases upon landlords and tenants in their due proportion. It has been strongly urged, that the criminal and civil business of the Quarter Sessions 'Mould he kept entirely separate, mid that all the criminal bushiest should lee first disposed of, so as to re ; lease the Megisteivee, who arc eilled together for that portion of the business belonging to tin Quarter Sessions, instead of retain ing them and the Juries :toil the witnesses, to their own great in_ convenience, and the increnseil expense of prosecutions. It has been suggested as all improvement, that the assistant Bar. rietersehonld not practice as Counsel in the counties whet e they sit upon the Bench. 'rho constitution of the Civil Bill Courts deserves serious con sideration ; and at MI events it appears to be advisable to require that their process should be executed by their own sworn officers. or by persuns more trustworthy and responsible than many of those who seem present employed. Strong representations have been made to the-Committee against the mode in which the process of Custodiam Writs in the superior Courts is executed, and also respecting mesne process. Several important suggestions have been made respecting the office of Sith-Shertfi'; viz.—That each Sub-Sheriff should have a regular office within his own county, where lie should attend at certain hours ; that this appointment should be subject to the up. probation of the last going Judge of .Assize ; that he should be rendered legally capable of serving more years than one ; and, that the execution writs should not be committed to any person, except the Sheriff's Officere. The administration of justice by the Magistrates in corporate towns, has been stated to be more frequently exceptionable than that exercised by county Magistrates ; and the levy of-tolls, and the expenditure of the owe,' received, is stated to reeuire exa mination and correction. Obstacles are alto stated to be opposed to the adiniesion of ,persons to their freedom, although entitled thereto by birth, servitude, or marriage. The present remedy, by •an application to the Court of King's Bench, is deemed to be tedious and expeneive ; and it is represented, that justice would be more easily rendered to the individual. claiming admission, by giving double or treble coats io the case of an unjustifiable refusal to admit. Although upon the tame grounds upon which they have con. tined theinstives to the collection of information, as to the civil disabilities of the Boman Catholics, the Committee abstain from doing more than to report the evidence they have received on the prnetical effect of the present sta:e of the Elective Franchise, they feel it necessary to state that it msy be found expedient to adopt some further and mere effectual pro% ision against the creation of fictitious or fraudulent qualifications, under tie law as it now exists. It has been strongly recammended that some rrovision should be made fur the relief of the extreme distress or Ow poorer classes in age or infirmity, if not by law (to which great objections have been stated), at least by organising the collection and distribution of charitable contributions. In addition to the suggestions above stated, various others have nlso been received, respecting the encouragement of emigration— the extension of public works of unquestionable utility, by reason able facilities of by the Government—the extension of ffe fisheries—improvements in the state of the lunatic asylums and houses of industry—the regulation or abolition of Manor Coons— the constitution and powers of Vestries—sand retpecing many de. tails in the subordinate administration of justice. For these, and other matters which are in different degrees deserving of attention, the Committee beg to refer to the evidence, where they will be found tinder the heads in the Index. The Cothmittee cannot close this Report. without expressing the pleasure they have received from the concurrent testimony of so' many witneasas, who, in speaking of the different nieastires which have been of late adopted for the improvement of the state of Ire-' land, have, in a greater or less degree, agreed in attributing to them n highly favourable effect. Thee establishment of the police anti constabulary force—the re vision of the magistracy, so her as it has gone—the meeting of the mngistrates in Petty Sessions the administration of justice by the assistant Darristers—the change which has taken place of late years in the mode of appointing Sheriffs—the public ivorks under taken by the Executive Government—the alteration in the system of the Distillery Laws, and in the general mode of collectiag the Itevenue—the remission of all direct taxes—the repeal of the Union dories—and the increased facility of commercial intercourse, have all contribitted not only to remove grievances, but to improve the situation of the conntry. The composition for tithe, under the authority of the Acts passed In the two last Sessiaiis of Parliament, has been hitherto as rapid and at beneficial us could have been expected under the circum stances of the times; and the greatest nilvantages ntay reason. ably be anticipated from the further progress of this important measure. The resmred tranquillity of the country has already afforded the opportunity for a mare extensive introduction of different branches of manufacture; and should it fortunately continue uninterrupted, the best hopes may be entertained, that by furnishing employment to the poorer classes, one of the greatest incentives to disturbance may he permanently removed. July 4, 1824. Messrs. Kingsbury, Parhury, anti Allen have just pub lished, on four sheets of Atlas, price 21. 25., a newly-constructed and extended Map of India. from the latest aurveys of the best audio rides, including a scuarate sketch of the Burman Umpire; compiled, principally for the Nine of the Oltieera of the Army in India, and inscribed to MaiorDeneral Sir J. Malcolm, G.C.R. K.L.S. &c. &el Among the great maas of materials used in the construction of this Map, both as regards the correction of numerous positions, and the insertion of much additional information, the following may he particularised :—the surveys of Colonel M•Renzie in the My. sore ; those of Brigadier Lambton, as well as numerous positions determined by him in the course of his recent trigonometrical ope rations.; the eurerys of Captains Hodgson, NVebh, and Whhe in the mountainotni distrieni; of Captain Franklin in Bundlecund ; of Captain Johnson in Bhopal. Malwa is copied from Sir J. Mal colm's map. The surreys of Lieutenants Cheape. Fisher, and Smith have also been copied into the map, as also the latest route. of Mr. Meorctoft. The countries bordering on the {treat Sandy Desert have been taken from the large MS. map by Captain Rey nold& These, with a great many other original and valuable Drawings of various parts of the Peninsula, which have been done under the superintendence of Captain Ijosigson, form the principal documents from which this map has been compiled. The light-bettrteriness of Frenchmen is attributed, by a late writer, to the salutary influence of wine upon their sonstitu ' thin • and. as an antidote to low spirits is so m uc h nee d e d by t h e people of this country, whose enterprising cli—actiir stihjec%• them to ao much anxiety and so mane vicissitudes, we are glad to see the reduction of the wine duties followed by a multiplication of alluring establishments, in which these exhilarating libations can he made with en little damage to the purse • anti amonKthe ntortber it would he disingenuous not to notice the new " Foreign 'trine Rooms." 1 opposite I . l "Yerie-sireef. Fleet-street, where the accommodations are upon a scale of such great respectability, and the eir•ges upor cuts of such resit moderation. ~ ~.-4' LAiF COURT OF CHANCERY, JULY S. anceox v. castraosr. In this ease, a bill was tiled by the plaintliffor himself and the against the executor. Th e entree was h ear d on a P terner oknas i one r other credito r s o r a teitator, praying an account of his Wet,. as and the mniter referred to the .faster, with directions to take the, account. The Menet, It appeared, refused to admit th e proof , which a bond ermine? offered of his debt. The ..aster 's report was enbsequently given in, and bxceptiona taken b' a Mr. Lowe, as Solaiitor for one of the creditors, who was plaintiffln an action at law for the recovery of his debt; tin the grounds Plat that Indivi. dual who fllttl the bill was nut a creditor, and, therefbrey not entitled to apply to ri Coma of Equity. The Lunn Cuaweer.non *aid, he had read all the poets in the case, and there were certain clectonstances in it which Indtwest lam to lake nonce of Mr. home's objection to a certain extent. it was said tint. that the decree hail been obtained by what tole techniially called mining rmrnt ; and twit, that there was no debt. A notion land gone abroad that actions ought to be hrtMght for the recovery of legacies. instead of suit beiug instituted in Chancery respecting them. Thie notion, houerer, could only be entertained by those *lto did not recollect the practice in courts or jnotiee foe . the last forte years. Lord Mansfield had a great knowledge of the practice in equity, but it was no deprettiation of the talents of that illustrious individual to soy, that lie had itterirerill so much lieekl in common law, that he forgot a great deal of site Chancery practice. And Mr. Justice Buller being of opinion that actions ought to be brought by :egatees, devisees, &e. he advised One to be tried id the Court of King's Bench shortly before the death of Lord Mann. field. When Lord Kenyon (who knew no well the edict of com mon law proceedings as any man who ever existed, and who alsd was thoroughly acquainted with the particular principles and practice of a Court of Equity,) got into the Court of King s Bench., he upset the whole doctrine (het had been attempted to be set tro by the two learned Judges just named ; and lie subsequently. tooted repeatedly to hint (the Lord Chancellor.) that at Iris act. vanced age, lie felt perfectly surprised how little he knew or the importance to his Majesty's subjects to h.fer a Court oe Equity, into which to bring such cases, rather than be driven into to Conn of' Law. After this, his Lordship hail to say was, that theschmits having been co long eetahlished, it was entirely Cu: of the power of any man to a l ter t h em, an d t h at it would be impossible fo'r peroons wlin would consult the dicta orcommon Rena, to say they should be ritteted : whether they might he improved upon was quite another thing. On the prteent occasion the Court would' take it tbr granted that the plaintill'had obtained the de. cote by mumwelnriti, nnil would also assume that he had no debt : but it was n o t to be lost sight of that a creditor who was threat ened with an injunction, in consequence of such a proceeding, was not to be considered at liberty to let the suit go on to a hear ing, then to go to the Miesteen Office, and in the course of two or three years after the commencement of the suit, rot the first time, to come into Court anti take the objection, with the view Id have the benefit of that objection. The Court, notiithstantling. would take notfce of the objection on behalf of the other creditors, and take care that.ns much justice should be done to them as if the complaining creditor had come earlier. There were other points oe form to be considered in the case, arising principally from the de mand of the complaining creditor, wind]. his Lordship said, lie would hulk into, and be able to dispose of the whole to-morrow. Mr. Beau) considered the complaint to have been made quite irregularly., and that .11r. Borne (night nbt to have been !want, ap pearing upon instruction, as lie did. furnished by Mr. Lowe, the creditor not bed :g before the Court by any petition. 111 r. House. stated, that Ile hat. received his Lordship's per mission to appear, and after having obtained that, it was only the want of en:lotion courtesy on the part of his Learned Friend, that could induce him to make such a statement as that lie ought not to have appeared. Further he felt quite competent clearly to show dud he was entitled to be heard, even if lie had not received the Lace of the Court to appear ; but be did not think it worth while to enter into that consideration tl:en. Ills lionnsit to said, it made not the aliglitest difference to Into, what the naive of the Solicitor on either side was, but he wan Or opinion that Mr. Horne had properly enough appeared. :MAKI:)100k: v. THE GI.IIIOIIGANSItInE CAXAL COMPAX . r. Counoel were heard at considerable length in this case yesterday, and the furdier hearing was fixed fur this day. Nt'llen the case was mentioned. The Lotto etiaNcet.r.on said he had fora lung time been stAmotitiz about in this canal. and could not rocceed in finding his way nut of it. P er h a p s , t h e C ounse l f or t h e p l a i nt iff could afford him some ntwistance by producing the plans thick had been ad• wench to On a former neepAjon. 31r. HEALD replied that they should be forthcoming in about an holm The I.oaD'ettaszcr.t.ton said, that unties all the circumstan• sett it would, perhaps, be better to wait till to-morrow, he would then see what could he done with the ease; he had attentively pe rused all the affidavit+. and 'silt that he could have but little ditfi• eulty In disposing of the case. DE BEAUVOIR r. RHODES. This was a motion to dissolve an injunction granted by the Vice•Chanailor. The case s-as argued at considerable length in his Honour's Court. 31i.11.11.D,ii;the defendant, said that by common conaent— a strange thing that the parties should agree on any point—this case was fixed for to.slar. The Learned Counsel then proceeded r.t considerable length to detail the fact% connected with it. The effect of the injunction, lie said, was to restrain his client (Mr. Rhode') I from excavating certain grounds, raising gravel, laying the fonnda dons- of houses, &c. on certain premises situate at Iloxton. 'nmc I time ago, when the lease uf these premise's was about to expire, .Ir. Rltrelcs, who was the tenant, applied to Mr. De Beatiroir, his landlord, for a renewal of the term, and after some negotiation bs• tween the partier, the premises were re-let to his client on a build. leg lease. Mr. Ithodes forthwith proceeded to erect houses and execute other plans which were projected by lira, in prosecution of which he expended enormous sums of money. lie laid out a stunt of no less titan 69,0110/. in forming a basin of water, part of the Regent's Canal ; the other portions of the work ware tarried on 071 the same grand and extensive scale : in consequence of improve ments which required almost a princely fortune to make, the pro perty considerably increased in value ; and the Regent's Cane:, which was before not much better than a ditch, became an eater. sive and beautiful sheet of water. Mr. De Beauvoir, nceirg ti :e great improvement which had taken place in the value of the pre mines, began to regret that he had granted the renewal at so low a rent. Ile said that he had been imposed, that a fraud had been practised on him, and that the lease could not stand in a Court of Equity. Actuated by each an impression, he appealed to the Vice-Chanc,flor For An injunction to restrain Mr. Rhodes from pre. seeming the works which were then going on. His Honour, con ceiving that the lease Wan unfairly obtained, ordered that it should he given up, and granted the required injunction, the consequesteas of which were the almost utter ruin of Mr. Rhodes. All the per sons with whom lie had attired into building contracts brought actions Against him ; he was plunged into lawsuits ; the workmen had been necessarily discharged ; the works were suspended, and falling into ruin and decay. It was therefore of the utmost Im portance to Mr. Rhodes that his Lordship should dissolve tha injunction. Mr. Rhodes had used every exertion to ecnvinee Mr. De Beauvoir that he held the land from him at a ree— -1 .onable rent ; and in order more fhlly to persuade hint i f l it, he procured Messrs. Nash Intl 'Sutton, and other gent' 1 1 men of great knowledge, practical as well as theoretical, and of considerable experience in such matters, to survey the premises. l and state their opinions on relit to this Court. The result of that examination was, that those most skilful gentlemen unanimously declared the rent, which was 1.300/. per annum, to be ressonalle ' and sufficient. The learned Counsel then entered Into a nil-live detail of the circumstances connected with the granting of the lease. with a view to negative the allegation of fraud, and to show 'that Mr. Beauvoir had not been imposed on. The leases he said were prepared by Mr. Clement. the plaintiff's solicitor, ;Ind by his directions ; there was no haste in the matter, and least of all wan there any connivance between Mr. Clement and Mr. Rhoden. After some further arguments, al r. Heald proceeded to say, that when he met Mr. Rhodes on a consnltation, that gentleman appeared so horrified at some of the :tent imputed to him. and at the inferences deduced from them. that his tew remaining bobs literally stood on end,and really (said the Learned Counted) I am not quite sure whe ther they have sine: then resumed their former position. (A laugh., 1 The het war.that Mr.De Beauvoir was so struck with the improve. ments„ that he trumped up the charge of fraud, to try if under !:I cover lie could get bark the premises. Ile saw so many lientititui mansions, as it were springing from the earth—so many extensive warehouses coping with the skies--then there was the Regent's Canal, freighted with the richest products of every country. of Paddington ' of Camdentown, &t. (great laughter .) All th ese wonderful i mprovements were constantly recurring to him in Ilia dreams, and at last he determined upon going into a court of equity, and seeking for the recovery of them. Hitherto he had unfortunately been too successful; the injunction had put an end to all the works, and Bloat extensive buildings, on which Mr. Rhodes had expended so much capital and skill, were now neglected—they were the den of beggars, and almost all the valuable material; employed in the construction of them, had become a prey to thieves. Mr. ((tarn said, that in all his experience lie never knew or injunction •to be granted on such ground's ; Van issue had b. , :t. directed to one of the Courts below, and if a Jury found that ia,, !ttte had been fraudulently obtained from Mr. De Beauvoir, the: , indeed, the case would have been different. Under all these circuit • stances. he trusted his Lordship would dissolve the injunction. Mr. HART followed on the same able. The Learned Gentletrso appeared fir a Mr. Tibbut, who acted as the Solicitor of al:. Rhodes, and in whose possession the lease of the premises was sat.( to be. The further hzating of the ease was fixed for Monday next. C(WRT OF KING'S BENCH, rntnAr, .YvT.I. 8. Mld.ilesrs eter Tribby arl CHIEF JUSTICK and a CJI:M.,r, LaTCOCa 'nig was an issue directed by the Lord Chancellor to tt.y question, whether the commission of bankrupt issued against Scholebeld was a concerted and fraudulent, or a bona hie coin miysian ? Mr. Sr attf.VrT stated. that the plaintiff was a judgment creditor of the bankrupt tn a larpe antonnt ; the defendant was the' petitioning creditor, and the assignee of the bankrupt. The plait tillt7rotiglit an motion against Seholetield, which was after wards r.ferred. and a canaiderahle sum watt awarded en be due • him. Previously :o an enerution being levied Mr. Scholettel 4 gave s warrant of attorney to his relation, a Mr. Meson ; upon which judgment WA% entered up, and a fi. ,fit. iss ue d aga i nst hi, property. About this time Scholefield disposed of his reversionary interest in certain other property for a very inadequate considers. I tins. and soon acier a docket was snuck against him by Mr. .'inibler, who pro:ured himself to be a pp o i nte d sole assiCses ..,. - , ~ 1 r ^ 1 • . - 71 1 1 I ! 1 • i i t